Double Vision, Singular Focus

WINTER 2007

IN THIS ISSUE New Faculty • Student & Alumni Profiles • Class Notes

The Magazine for the University of Minnesota Law School

Double Vision, Singular Focus

Two heads may be better than one, especially when they share a drive for results. The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

INTERIM DEANS Guy-Uriel E. Charles Fred L. Morrison

INTERIM DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Cynthia Huff

EDITOR Scotty G. Mann

COPY EDITOR Corrine Charais

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Mary Alton Shana Bachman Anita Cole Deborah Gallenberg Susan Gainen Katherine Hedin Sara Jones Cathy Madison Todd Melby Scott Russell Leslie Watson

PHOTOGRAPHERS Jessica Johnson Daniel J. Kieffer Dan Marshall Tony Nelson John Noltner Tim Rummelhoff

DESIGNERS Carr Creatives

This is a general interest magazine published throughout the academic year for the University of Minnesota Law School community of alumni, friends, and supporters. Let- ters to the editor or any other communication regarding content should be sent to Cynthia Huff, Interim Director of Communications, University of Minnesota Law School, 229 19th Avenue South, Room 225, Minneapolis, MN 55455. [email protected]

his past fall, we had numerous opportunities to reflect on the purposes Tand goals of law and legal institutions in the 21st century. As we spent time with alumni in particular but also with faculty, students, staff, and friends of the Law School, part of our role was to articulate the Law School’s raison d’être. Too often in our culture, there is a tendency to underappreciate the important role of lawyers and the law in a free and democratic society. Lawyers are too frequently viewed as parasites who feed on society without contributing anything of value. Of course, we all know that nothing could be further from the truth. Nearly two-thirds of the delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were lawyers. Lawyers have a long history of commitment to certain fundamental values that sustain a free society: respect for the rule of law, freedom of speech, equality, and the presumption of innocence. Lawyers’ support of the law presents a framework for resolving private disputes, a forum for vindicating criminal offenses to persons and property, a mechanism for facilitating economic prosperity through the development of contracts and commercial transactions, and an opportunity for distinguishing relevant facts from irrelevant facts and falsehoods. And the list goes on. These values and others are lacking in many places, both in this country and around the world, and their absence is deeply felt. But when they are upheld— and that reinforcement comes primarily from lawyers—they contribute to everything that is admirable about a free and democratic society. As a public educational institution, the University of Minnesota Law School bears a special responsibility for inculcating these and other values into the hearts FRED L. MORRISON and minds of our students. It was not mere happenstance that the majority of the AND GUY-URIEL E. CHARLES founding fathers were lawyers. It is not simple coincidence that a large majority of our elected officials and most influential leaders are lawyers. And it is not an accident that many powerful politicians and business leaders are graduates of this very Law School. (Watch for our coverage of alumni in public office in the next issue.) Lawyers, and especially our Law School graduates, are trained to uphold the best of our society’s values, and they sometimes do so even when it is politi- cally incorrect and socially uncomfortable. Our aim at the Law School is to teach our students that we represent values beyond ourselves. Even in the mundane details of drawing up a contract, making an estate plan to pass property from one generation to another, representing an unpopular criminal defendant, passing legislation, or concluding a merger and acquisition, our vigilant attention to the law embodies the spirit behind a free and just society. The lawyer’s role is often complicated and nuanced; not everything is black and white. It is sometimes difficult, frustrating, and yes, even boring. But most important, by safeguarding cherished values, lawyers perform a noble role.

Guy-Uriel E. Charles and Fred L. Morrison

Perspectives WINTER 2007 1 Contents

FEATURES

20 Double Vision, Singular Focus

Two heads may be better than one, especially when they share a drive for results. by Cathy Madison Photography by John Noltner

25 Hedin Alcove Lightens the Load Law, literature, and the arts made more comfortable

2 1 Deans’ Perspective 4 Faculty Perspective 5 Faculty R&D March 1–October 1, 2006 Welcome Additions 14 New and returning stars add strength to the faculty Robert Stein, Thomas Cotter, Claire Hill, Heidi Kitrosser, Alexandra Klass, William McGeveran, Francesco Parisi 16 Visiting Faculty 4 David Adelman, Susanna Blumenthal, Lisa Stratton, Aleatra Williams 18 In the Wings Richard W. Painter, Chantal Thomas 19 Profile: Professor Ruth Okediji 26 At the Law School 27 War and the Law Professors Jack M. Balkin and George P. Fletcher, guest lecturers 28 Symposium on Global Response to Terrorism Post 9/11 29 Celebrating 25 Years with the University of Uppsala Faculty of Law 29 Staff Honored for their Years of Service, New Hires 32 and Other Staff Announcements 30 The Alumni-Student Connection 31 Judge Heaney Honored for Lifetime of Service 32 East Meets Midwest 33 Corporate Externship Gives Students Practical Experience 34 Interdisciplinary Lectures Schedule 35 Class of 2006 Graduation 36 Student Perspective 37 Diversity Finds a Home at the Law School Wei Li, Dan Robinson, Zainab Akbar, Laurel Kilgour 39 Raise the Bar Cleans Up 39 40 Alumni Perspective 41 Distinguished Alumni Profiles Deena Bennett, John Docherty, Wilbur Fluegel, Sumbal Mahmud, Akhar Usman 44 Joseph T. O’Neill Receives the Outstanding Achievement Award 45 Grads Gather at the New Guthrie 46 Class Notes 54 Memorial Tributes Curtis Bradbury Kellar, Richard FitzGerald 55 In Memoriam 56 Law Alumni Association Board of Directors 44

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Faculty Perspective ❯

Former recipients of the Julius E. Davis Chair celebrated with new Davis Chair Dale Carpenter and Mrs. Julius Davis (center). Front row: Professors Daniel Gifford, Jim Chen, Laura Cooper, Dan Burk, Brett McDonnell, Susan Wolf, Stephen Befort. Back row: Professors Brad Karkkainen, Richard Frase, Barry Feld, Dale Carpenter, Robert Levy, Oren Gross, John Matheson

LAW BRIEF

• 34 permanent endowed chairs/professorships

LAW BRIEF

• 61 full-time faculty (38% female, 18% minorities and 9 clinical faculty)

• 29 affiliated faculty ❯

Dean Joan S. Howland speaking at the

Hedin Alcove celebration. ❯ Professor Kevin Reitz delivering The James Annenberg Levee Land Grant Chair in Criminal Procedure lecture in October

❯ Professors Matheson, Alex Johnson, Jr. and Carol Chomsky

4 Perspectives WINTER 2007 Faculty R&D Highlights of the numerous publications, presentations, and achievements of Law School faculty. March 1–October 1, 2006

THE BENJAMIN N. BERGER PROFESSOR OF Edward S. Adams Beverly Balos Stephen F. Befort Brian H. Bix CRIMINAL LAW REAPPOINTMENT LECTURE EDWARD S. ADAMS STEPHEN F. BEFORT On Sept. 12, 2006, Richard S. Frase commemorated Professor Adams is preparing a treatise Professor Befort was elected to the Exec- his reappointment as the Benjamin N. Berger Pro- entitled The Law of Nanotechnology, utive Board of the International Society fessor of Criminal Law with a lecture entitled “Sen- intended to provide a detailed examina- for Labour Law and Social Security. He tencing Guidelines in Minnesota—Past, Present tion of relevant legal-related issues in the wrote three law review articles: “The and Future” at the Law School’s Lockhart Hall. He emerging field of nanotechnology and Regulatory Void of Contingent Work” in scheduled to be published by a leading the Employee Rights and Employee Policy was the 1988–1989 Julius E. Davis Professor of Law academic publisher in 2008. He is finaliz- Journal, “When Quitting is Fitting: The and has been the Benjamin N. Berger Professor of ing “Bridging the Gap Between Owner- Need for a Reformulated Sexual Harass- Criminal Law since 1991. ship and Control,” which considers the ment/Constructive Discharge Standard in benefits of a full-circle evaluation system the Wake of Pennsylvania State Police v. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Haverford College, of corporate management and advocates a Suders” (with Sarah J. Gorajski) in the Frase received his J.D. from the University of means for institutional investors to imple- Ohio State Law Journal, and the forth- Chicago, where he was Comment Editor of the Uni- ment such a system for companies and coming “A Perfect Storm of Retirement versity of Chicago Law Review. Before joining the thereby improve corporate accountability. Security: Fixing the Three-Legged Stool Law School in 1977, he clerked for Chief Judge of Professor Adams is also working on an of Social Security, Pensions, and Personal the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit article that addresses issues related to the Savings” in the Minnesota Law Review. Luther M. Swygert, practiced at the Chicago-based bank statement rule under Article 4 of the With Paul Gerhart, he co-edited Arbitra- Uniform Commercial Code and is draw- tion 2005: The Evolving World of Work: firm now known as Sidley Austin LLP, and was a ing up a proposal for a multi-volume Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting research associate and Arnold Shure Fellow at the publication regarding the Uniform Com- of the National Academy of Arbitrators Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the Univer- mercial Code. published by the Bureau of National sity of Chicago Law School. Affairs, and he completed a supplement for Employment Law and Practice. He During his distinguished career, he has taught a BEVERLY BALOS wrote two professional education pieces: broad range of criminal law courses. He has been a Professor Balos was awarded the Vaughan “The Americans with Disabilities Act: visiting professor at Christian-Albrechts-Universität G. Papke Clinical Professorship in Law for The Most Troublesome Issues” published in Kiel, Germany, and Université Jean Moulin in 2006-2008, a two-year professorship by the Labor Arbitration Institute in Labor Lyon, France, and a frequent contributor to radio, established to support and honor clinical Arbitration and Labor Law and “Public television, and newspaper reports on criminal jus- faculty members for their scholarship. She Sector Update 2005-06” in the 2006 facilitated a panel on domestic violence Employment Law Handbook. Two of tice issues. Frase is a member of the American Law for International Women’s Day, and she Professor Befort’s recent labor arbitration Institute, the American Society of Criminology, the co-developed and presented training on decisions were selected for publication in International Association of Penal Law, and the advanced advocacy for the Minnesota the Bureau of National Affairs’ Labor American, Minnesota, and Hennepin County bar Coalition for Battered Women at the Arbitration Reports. associations. organization’s statewide conference. Pro- fessor Balos also became a member of the The Benjamin N. Berger Professorship of Criminal Board of Directors of WATCH, a court- BRIAN H. BIX Law was established through the generosity of Ben- monitoring agency focused on the justice Several of Professor Bix’s essays were col- jamin Berger, a prominent Minneapolis business- response to domestic and sexual violence. lected and translated into Spanish under man and humanitarian, and his wife Mildred. They She gave numerous newspaper and radio the title Teoria del Derecho: Ambición y believed that continuous and systematic examina- interviews, in both local and national out- Limites (Marcial Pons, 2006). Forthcom- lets, on domestic violence issues and the ing publications include “Perfectionist tion of all aspects of crime and its impact on society implications of a constitutional amend- Policies in Family Law” in the University was a logical, tangible means of reducing the level ment banning same-sex marriage. of Illinois Law Review; “On Questions of crime in America. and Answers in Law’s Quandary” in the San Diego Law Review; “Form and

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Dale Carpenter Bradley G. Clary Laura J. Cooper Thomas J. Cotter

Formalism: The View from Legal Theory” LAURA J. COOPER in Ratio Juris; “Robert Alexy, Radbruch’s At their June international conference in Formula, and the Nature of Legal The- Saratoga Springs, New York, members of ory” in Rechtstheorie; “Theories of Jus- the Labor Law Group presented an origi- tice” in Encyclopedia of Legal History nal oil painting to Professor Cooper in THE JULIUS E. DAVIS PROFESSOR OF LAW (Oxford University Press); and “Legal recognition of her four years of leadership APPOINTMENT Realism,” “Historical Jurisprudence,” and as chair of this group of scholars who “Lon Fuller” in The New Oxford Com- collaboratively write textbooks on labor On Sept. 19, 2006, Dale Carpenter was appointed the panion to Law. Professor Bix also pre- and employment law. At the conference, 2006-2007 Julius E. Davis Professor of Law. He was sented papers on contract law theory at she gave a presentation on the use of the 2004-2005 Vance K. Opperman Research Scholar the University of Illinois College of Law, electronics in labor law pedagogy and and the 2003-2004 Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the and on legal philosophy and conceptual moderated a panel on empirical studies of analysis at Macalester College. employment arbitration. Professor Cooper Year. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale Col- was recently elected to membership in the lege in 1989 and received his J.D. from the University College of Labor and Employment of Chicago Law School in 1992, where he was editor- DALE CARPENTER Lawyers. Her article “The Process of in-chief of the University of Chicago Law Review and Professor Carpenter published “Unani- Process: The Historical Development of received honors for legal scholarship. After law mously Wrong” on the Supreme Court’s Procedure in Labor Arbitration” was pub- school, he clerked for Judge Edith H. Jones of the U.S. decision in Rumsfeld v. FAIR (Forum for lished by the Bureau of National Affairs in Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and practiced Academic and Institutional Rights) in the Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of Cato Supreme Court Review. He also the National Academy of Arbitrators. law in Houston and San Francisco. He teaches, writes, updated his white paper for the Cato and speaks on constitutional and commercial law, the Institute opposing the Federal Marriage First Amendment, and sexual orientation and the law Amendment (Policy Analysis No. 570 THOMAS J. COTTER and is an editor of Constitutional Commentary. entitled “The Federal Marriage Amend- Professor Cotter presented “Authors, A member of the Texas and California state bars, ment: Unnecessary, Anti-Federalist, and Audiences, and Anonymous Speech” at Carpenter joined the Law School in 2000. Anti-Democratic”) in advance of the Washington and Lee University in March Senate vote last June on the amendment. and at the Intellectual Property Scholars During the appointment ceremony at the Minneapo- Professor Carpenter spoke at the Confer- Conference at the University of Califor- lis Club, attended by Mrs. Davis and other family ence on Censorship and Institutional nia-Berkeley, in August. The paper, co- members, Carpenter thanked Julius Davis, calling him Review Boards at Northwestern Univer- authored with Professor Lyrissa Barnett a man who “made his own way in life and in the law. sity Law School in April and will publish Lidsky, will be published in a forthcoming an article on the subject in a forthcoming issue of the Notre Dame Law Review. In He made, and is making even beyond his death, the issue of the Northwestern Law Review. May at UC Berkeley, Professor Cotter rest of us better because he fought to make this presented “The Procompetitive Interest in country better.” Carpenter noted that inviting people Intellectual Property Law” at the Ameri- in, “whether they are immigrants, slaves, women, BRADLEY G. CLARY can Law & Economics Association annual religious and political dissenters from the majority’s Professor Clary continues to serve on meeting, and it will be published in a values, or gay people,” is the nation’s finest endeavor. the Communication Skills Committee forthcoming issue of the William and His life as a scholar is an evaluation of the country’s of the American Bar Association Section Mary Law Review. He moderated a dis- of Legal Education and is a principal cussion titled “Fifth Amendment Takings errors, he said, “but it is also an expression of love for contributor to the second edition of the and Intellectual Property” at the Associa- this country’s core principles of respect for the life, Sourcebook on Legal Writing Programs, tion of American Law Schools Workshop the dignity, and the liberty of every person who which ABA Publishing released in Sep- on Intellectual Property in Vancouver, and inhabits it.” tember. He and co-authors Sharon Reich he prepared an amicus brief in a U.S. Paulsen and Michael Vanselow have begun Supreme Court patent case: MedImmune Julius E. Davis (class of 1936) was a well-known Twin preliminary work on the third edition of Inc. v. Genentech Inc. Professor Cotter Cities lawyer and civic leader. His family, friends, their American Casebook Series text, presented “Fair Use and Copyright colleagues, and law firm generously endowed the Advocacy on Appeal. Professor Clary is also Overenforcement,” a work in progress, Chair in Law as a lasting memorial to his dedicated working on the next generation of the at the University of Minnesota and support of the Law School. The appointment rotates strategic plan for the Law school’s applied UC-Berkeley. In November at George annually among faculty and recognizes excellence in legal instruction program. Washington University, he presented “A Burkean Perspective on Patent Eligi- teaching, research, and scholarship. bility,” for which he received a writing grant from Oracle Corporation.

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Prentiss Cox Barry Feld Richard S. Frase Daniel J. Gifford Ralph F. Hall Claire A. Hill

PRENTISS COX cles in State vs. McFee (September 21, In late September, he presented that paper During the fall semester, Professor Cox 2006), upholding the inclusion of delin- at the Canadian Law and Economics launched the Consumer Protection quency adjudications in an adult offender’s Association conference. He is in the final Clinic, in which student attorneys are rep- criminal history score. stage of completing a book-length manu- resenting individuals in cases involving script on U.S. labor policy. deceptive sales practices, debt collection abuse, lemon law claims, and other con- RICHARD S. FRASE sumer law matters. He published “Goliath Professor Frase is working on a book on RALPH F. HALL Has the Slingshot: Public Benefit and Pri- constitutional proportionality principles, Professor Hall continues to research, vate Enforcement of Minnesota Con- to be co-authored with Provost E. write, and speak on a variety of subjects sumer Protection Laws” on the impact of Thomas Sullivan, and is writing a chapter relating to pharmaceutical and medical- the Minnesota Supreme Court’s imposi- for a book to honor celebrated compara- device regulation. He has published arti- tion of a public benefit test in private tive law scholar Mirjan Damaska. He has cles on the applicability of the False actions to enforce consumer fraud laws in written an article on sentencing and three Claims Act to off-label promotion of the William Mitchell Law Review. Among articles on comparative criminal justice, pharmaceuticals and medical devices and other continuing education courses and which are scheduled to be published the trend toward imposing corporate and presentations, he spoke at the American within the next few months in law individual liability based on actions of the Conference Institute in New York in reviews or as book chapters. This past corporate compliance office. He has also October on state attorneys general summer Professor Frase made presenta- published an article on the recent Abigail enforcement actions in the area of con- tions on the Minnesota Sentencing Alliance for Better Access to Develop- sumer financial services. Professor Cox has Guidelines to conferences at Stanford Law mental Drugs case, in which the U.S. Dis- been cited in numerous articles by the School and in Melbourne, Australia. In trict Court for the District of Columbia local media on consumer fraud and in an September, on the occasion of his re- found a substantive due process right article in Mother Jones magazine on the appointment as Benjamin N. Berger Pro- under the Fifth Amendment for termi- rising rate of home foreclosures. fessor of Criminal Law, he delivered a lec- nally ill patients to have access to experi- ture on the past, present, and future of the mental, unapproved therapies. Recently Minnesota guidelines. he was asked to join the Board of Editors BARRY FELD of the Food and Drug Law Journal. Pro- For the past year, Professor Feld has used fessor Hall has spoken at several regional juvenile court records, police reports, DANIEL J. GIFFORD and national conferences on such subjects tapes, and transcripts of interrogations to Professor Gifford’s article “Trade and Ten- as product recall, the interface between study how police question juveniles. His sions” was recently published in the Min- Food and Drug Administration require- findings are described in the upcoming nesota Journal of International Law. The ments and product liability matters, and articles “Juveniles’ Competence to Exer- Chevron doctrine, which requires judicial corporate compliance matters. He has cise Miranda Rights: An Empirical Study deference to agency interpretations of been asked to serve as a consultant to Vista of Policy and Practice” in the Minnesota ambiguous statutory terms, has been Research, a part of Standard and Poor’s, Law Review and “Police Interrogation of unsettled by Supreme Court decisions on the implications of pharmaceutical and Juveniles: An Empirical Study of Policy over the last several years, and Professor medical-device recalls. and Practice” in the Journal of Criminal Gifford is working on an article that Law and Criminology. Professor Feld has examines a revised Chevron doctrine. It spoken at several events around the coun- identifies the direction in which the CLAIRE A. HILL try in observation of juvenile courts’ cen- Court is heading and assesses the result. In March and April, Professor Hill made tenary, most recently at a symposium on Professor Gifford and Humphrey Institute presentations at the Law and Behavioral juvenile justice at Northern Kentucky Professor Robert Kudrle are writing a Biology Roundtable and the Society for University, Highland Heights. His lecture paper that compares the laws prohibiting Evolutionary Analysis in Law conferences there will be published as “A Century of price discrimination in the United States, at Vanderbilt University School of Law. In Juvenile Justice: A Failed Experiment or a Canada, and the European Union. They April, she presented “A Cognitive Theory Work-in-Progress?” in an upcoming issue examine statutes, treaty provisions, and of Trust,” co-authored with Erin O’Hara, of the Chase Law Review. Professor Feld case law and draw from economic analy- at a symposium on regulating business recently presented “Politics of Race and ses in the recent literature, especially those held at Washington University School of Juvenile Justice” at the MacArthur Foun- evaluating the effects of so-called fidelity Law. It will be published in a forthcoming dation’s National Conference on Juvenile and target rebate practices. Professor Gif- issue of the Washington University Law Justice and Adolescent Development in ford has also prepared an early draft of a Review. In June, Professor Hill presented Washington, DC. The Minnesota Supreme paper dealing with transactions costs in “Rationality Reconceived” at a Gruter Court cited three of Professor Feld’s arti- antitrust and intellectual property settings. Institute for Law and Behavioral Research

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Joan S. Howland Brad Karkkainen Heidi Kitrosser Alexandra B. Klass

conference. In September, at the Canadian at the Sub-national Level in the United Law and Economics Association confer- States” at an international conference on ence, she and Professor Brett McDonnell clean energy and climate change at presented “Disney, Structural Bias and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He Good Faith,” which will be published in published three law review articles: “The THE JAMES ANNENBERG LEVEE LAND the Journal of Corporation Law. In Octo- Police Power Revisited: Phantom Incor- GRANT CHAIR IN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ber, Professor Hill presented “The Irra- poration and the Roots of the Takings APPOINTMENT LECTURE tionality of Rational Choice” at a sympo- Muddle” in Minnesota Law Review, sium of the NYU Journal of Law & Lib- “Information-Forcing Environmental Kevin Reitz marked his appointment as the James erty titled Behavioral Law & Economics’ Regulation” in Florida State University Annenberg Levee Land Grant Chair in Criminal Proce- Challenge to the Classical Liberal Pro- Law Review, and “Managing Transbound- dure with a lecture entitled “Criminal Sentencing: gram. It will be published in the journal’s ary Aquatic Ecosystems: Lessons from the Legal Frameworks for Public Policy” on Oct. 3, 2006, symposium issue. Great Lakes” in a forthcoming issue of Transnational Lawyer. He also wrote two at Lockhart Hall. He joined the faculty in 2005 and book chapters: “Information-Forcing teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, and profes- JOAN S. HOWLAND Regulation and Environmental Gover- sional responsibility. Having published widely in sen- Associate Dean and Professor Howland nance” in Law and New Governance in tencing law and policy, Reitz focuses largely on the published “Expressing Our Values Through the EU and the US, edited by Grainne de criminal bar and criminal justice community. He has Our Actions” in the proceedings of the Burca and Joanne Scott, and “NEPA and been active in the National Association of Sentencing 2006 Sovereignty Symposium, sponsored the Curious Evolution of Environmental Commissions, which serves as a nationwide resource by the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, and Impact Assessment in the U.S.” in the is working to complete “Bibliocide: forthcoming Environmental Assessment: for states preparing for sentencing reform, since Banned in Boston, Burned in Berkeley; Law, Policy, and Custom, edited by Jane organizing the pilot meeting in 1993. Silenced Authors and Freedom of Expres- Holder. In May, Professor Karkkainen pre- Reitz graduated from the University of Pennsylvania sion.” In August she presented “Protection sented “Adaptive Management and the and Preservation of Indigenous Cultures Law of Environmental Decisionmaking” Law School, where he was Comment Editor of the in the 21st Century” in Buenos Aires at a at the 2006 Water Law, Policy, and Science University of Pennsylvania Law Review, in 1982. After conference sponsored by the governments conference hosted by the University of graduation, he clerked for Alaska Supreme Court Jus- of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Chile. Nebraska-Lincoln. tice Jay A. Rabinowitz and practiced criminal and civil She continues to work closely with sev- law at Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul in Philadelphia. eral remote indigenous communities in HEIDI KITROSSER From 1988 to 2005, he taught at the University of Uruguay in developing their libraries and Colorado School of Law in Boulder, spending 2002 as technological capabilities. Professor How- Professor Kitrosser’s recent writings, land serves on the Law School Admissions scheduled to appear in forthcoming pub- a visiting fellow at the Institute of Criminology at the Council and was recently appointed to lications, include “Secrecy and Separated University of Cambridge. the Council of the American Bar Associa- Powers: Executive Privilege Revisited” in He was co-reporter for the new edition of the Ameri- tion Section of Legal Education & Admis- the Iowa Law Review, a symposium article sions to the Bar. She was treasurer for the in the Minnesota Law Review, a sympo- can Bar Association’s Standards for Criminal Justice: Joint Conference of Librarians of Color in sium introduction in the Brooklyn Law Sentencing from 1989 to 1994. In 2001 he was Dallas in October and served on a federal Review, and several entries in the Encyclo- appointed by the American Law Institute as reporter grant review panel for the 2006 Laura pedia of the First Amendment, edited by for the first-ever revision of the Model Penal Code’s Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. David Hudson, David Schultz, and John provisions on sentencing and corrections, an ambi- She is a member of the executive board Vile. She recently presented “Classified tious project that has drawn considerable attention and treasurer of the American Indian Information Leaks and Free Speech” at from policy-makers and scholars. Library Association. Professor Howland the University of Florida Center for will chair the ABA sabbatical evaluation Information Research and Chicago-Kent The James Annenberg Levee Land Grant Chair in team visiting the Pontifical Catholic Uni- College of Law, and “Macro-Transparency Criminal Procedure was established through the versity of Puerto Rico Law School in as Structural Directive: A Look at the spring 2007. generosity of James Annenberg Levee (class of 1969) NSA Surveillance Controversies” at the Minnesota Law Review fall 2006 sympo- and is a tribute to his strong commitment to the con- sium. Professor Kitrosser also spoke on stitutional rights of all individuals. His mother, Polly BRAD KARKKAINEN civil liberties and national security for the Annenberg Levee, also was a generous supporter of In October Professor Karkkainen pre- American Association of University the Law School. sented “Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Women and on executive privilege at Clean Energy and Climate Change Policy Washington University in St. Louis.

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John H. Matheson Fionnuala Ni Aoláin Paula Seeger David Stras

ALEXANDRA B. KLASS fessor Oren Gross, has just been published Professor Klass published “Adverse Posses- by Cambridge University Press as part of sion and Conservation: Expanding Tradi- its Cambridge Studies in International and tional Notions of Use and Possession” in Comparative Law series. Her article the University of Colorado Law Review. “Political Violence and Gender During Upcoming articles include “Modern Pub- Times of Transition” was published in the McKNIGHT PRESIDENTIAL PROFESSOR OF lic Trust Principles: Recognizing Rights Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. In LAW, MEDICINE, AND PUBLIC POLICY and Integrating Standards” in the Notre May Professor Ni Aoláin was a speaker at Dame Law Review and “Common Law an international conference in Jerusalem, In July 2006, Susan M. Wolf was appointed the Uni- and Federalism in the Age of the Regula- Israel, jointly organized by the Minerva versity’s McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, tory State” in the Iowa Law Review. In Center and the International Committee Medicine, and Public Policy. She is the Faegre & Ben- April, Professor Klass spoke on the of the Red Cross that explored the paral- son Professor of Law; a professor of medicine; the Endangered Species Act and National lel application of humanitarian law and director of the Joint Degree Program in Law, Health & Environmental Policy Act at the Environ- human rights law. She presented “Ham- mental Law Institute in Minneapolis. In dan, the Supreme Court and Common the Life Sciences; and chair of the Consortium on Law July, she presented a paper at the first Big Article 3” at the Minnesota Law Review and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sci- Ten UnTENured Scholars Conference at symposium in October. ences. She has published more than 50 books and Indiana University School of Law- articles on health, medicine, and bioethics. Bloomington. Professor Klass is lead counsel for Friends of Twin Lakes, a pro PAULA SEEGER A summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University bono citizen group that filed an environ- Paula Seeger joined the library staff as in 1975, Wolf received her J.D. from Yale Law School mental lawsuit challenging a proposed Circulation Librarian this summer and is in 1980. After law school, she clerked for Judge residential and retail development in responsible for supervising the circulation Leonard B. Sand of the U.S. District Court for the Roseville, Minnesota. In August, the Min- department, library security and facilities, Southern District of New York and practiced at Paul, nesota Court of Appeals held that the and the upcoming law library blog. She Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York. She City’s approval of the development was most recently held the position of Branch contrary to its planning documents and Librarian at the Dane County Legal was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fel- had received insufficient environmental Resource Center in the Dane County low at New York’s Hastings Center—a senior study under state law. Professor Klass is Courthouse, Madison, Wisconsin. Ms bioethics research institute—in 1984 and 1985 and currently secretary of the Minnesota State Seeger holds a bachelor’s degree in reli- became the Center's Associate for Law. As an adjunct Bar Environmental and Natural Resources gion from Augsburg College, Minneapo- associate professor at New York University School of Section and a member of the Board of lis; a master’s degree in theology and the Law from 1987 to 1992, she taught law and medi- Directors of the Minnesota Chapter of arts from United Theological Seminary of cine. She was a Fellow in the Harvard University Pro- the Federal Bar Association. the Twin Cities; and a master’s degree in library and information studies from the gram in Ethics and the Professions in 1992-1993 and University of Wisconsin-Madison. joined the Law School’s faculty in 1993. JOHN H. MATHESON The McKnight professorships, assigned by the presi- Professor Matheson has received, for the fourth time in 2005-2006, the prestigious DAVID STRAS dent, are made possible by a $15 million gift from the Stanley V. Kinyon Excellence in Teaching Professor Stras is active on several projects McKnight Foundation. They recognize distinguished and Counseling Award. As part of the Law relating to the institutional characteristics faculty across all disciplines and help the University School’s inaugural program in Beijing, of federal courts, and to the Supreme recruit and retain world-class scholars. China, Professor Matheson taught a Court of the United States in particular. course this past summer on comparative He presented “Are Senior Judges Uncon- business entities to 26 American and Chi- stitutional?,” co-authored with Ryan W. nese law students. In addition, he pub- Scott, to the University of Minnesota Law lished “Convergence, Culture and Con- School faculty and to attendees of the Big tract Law in China” in the Minnesota Ten UnTENured Conference at Indiana Journal of International Law. University School of Law-Bloomington, and it will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Cornell Law Review. He FIONNUALA NI AOLÁIN wrote a review essay, “Gatekeepers of the The book Law in Times of Crisis: Emer- Supreme Court: The Role of Law Clerks gency Powers in Theory and Practice, co- in the Certiorari Process,” which will authored by Professor Ni Aoláin and Pro- appear in a forthcoming issue of the Texas

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Kevin K. Washburn David Weissbrodt Susan M. Wolf

Law Review. Professor Stras is also cur- DAVID WEISSBRODT rently working on several papers that In March Professor Weissbrodt presented examine the reasons behind the Supreme “Business and Human Rights Obliga- Court’s declining merits docket. Professor tions” to the American Society of Inter- Stras has also been active in the local and national Law in Washington, D.C., and in UNIVERSITY AWARD FOR GLOBAL national community, appearing frequently June he presented “Labor Protection ENGAGEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL as a guest on radio and television pro- Mechanisms: An International Perspec- PROGRAMS APPOINTMENT grams to discuss the nominations and tive” to the Human Rights Law & Policy confirmations of Chief Justice John and Asylum Conference sponsored by In October 2006, Meredith McQuaid, Associate Dean Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito. The Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. of Administration and International Programs, was University of Minnesota’s College of In July he taught a three-week human honored with the University Award for Global Continuing Education invited Professor rights seminar for master’s students at Engagement. The award is presented to faculty and Stras to speak on the role of politics in Oxford University. In October he worked judicial elections at the annual Conference with law students Sarah Payne and Eliza- staff members in recognition of outstanding contri- on Policy Analysis in October. beth Powers on an amicus curiae brief, butions to global education and international pro- which was submitted to the U.S. Supreme grams in their field or discipline or at the University. Court, regarding international human KEVIN K. WASHBURN rights issues arising in the case of Meredith Since joining the Law School in 1994, McQuaid (class Professor Washburn and co-principal v. Jefferson County Board of Education. of 1991) has been largely responsible for a series of investigators Carole Goldberg and Duane Professor Weissbrodt co-authored “Extra- achievements in international education. Under her Champagne from UCLA received a $1.5 ordinary Rendition: A Human Rights leadership, the Law School's LL.M. program for inter- million grant from the National Institute Analysis” in the Harvard Human Rights national graduate students grew from a handful of of Justice for “A Study of the Administra- Journal. He also published articles on the students to between 25 and 30 each year. To help tion of Criminal Justice in Indian absolute prohibition of torture and ill- these students prepare and understand the American Country.” He presented a paper at the treatment; on prospects for U.S. ratifica- Woodrow Wilson International Center for tion of the Convention on the Rights of legal system, McQuaid created Introduction to Ameri- Scholars, Washington, D.C., and testified the Child; and on economic, social, and can Law, a course that provides an overview of U.S. before the U.S. House of Representatives’ cultural rights. He continued service on history, legal history, civil and criminal procedure, full Committee on Resources on an the International Executive Committee of constitutional law, and legal research. Indian gaming bill. Professor Washburn Amnesty International and the Board of also gave presentations at the National Trustees of the U.N. Trust Fund on Con- McQuaid also has created exchange programs with Congress of American Indians mid-year temporary Forms of Slavery. universities in other countries, including the Law conference and to the faculty of the Mar- School's newest programs at the University of Monte- quette University Law School. He pub- video in Uruguay and the China University of Political lished articles on American Indian law SUSAN M. WOLF Science and Law in Beijing. She is president of the and criminal law in the Connecticut Law Professor Wolf was appointed McKnight University's China Center Advisory Council and the Review, the Michigan Law Review, and Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine, the North Carolina Law Review. As a and Public Policy. She and co-principal immediate past chair of the Association of American member of the Executive Board of Edi- investigators, professors Gurumurthy Law Schools’ Section of Graduate Programs for For- tors, he drafted three chapter updates for Ramachandran, Efrosini Kokkoli, and Jen- eign Lawyers. the upcoming 2007 supplement to the nifer Kuzma, and Jordan Paradise, received 2005 edition of Felix Cohen’s Handbook a $1.22 million four-year grant from the In November, Dean McQuaid was appointed Interim of Federal Indian Law. Professor Washburn National Science Foundation to develop Associate Vice President and Dean of International has also joined the Criminal Law and oversight models for nanotechnology. Pro- Programs at the University. In her new role, she will Procedure Drafting Committee of the fessor Wolf published “Doctor and Patient: provide administrative oversight of the Office of Inter- National Conference of Bar Examiners An Unfinished Revolution” in the Yale national Programs and its new academic initia- and will write questions for upcoming sit- Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics. tives—International Student and Scholar Services, tings of the Multistate Bar Examination. As chair of the Consortium on Law and Professor Washburn was also appointed to the Learning Abroad Center, the Center for Advanced Values in Health, Environment & the Life a three-year term on the Board of Sciences, Professor Wolf edited a Consor- Research on Language Acquisition, and the China Trustees of the Law School Admission tium symposium, “The Responsible Use Center. Council. He will be a visiting professor at of Racial and Ethnic Categories in Bio- Harvard Law School for the 2007-2008 medical Research: Where Do We Go from school year, teaching criminal law, gaming Here?,” published in the Journal of Law, law, and American Indian law. Medicine & Ethics. She and Professor Jef-

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Judith T. Younger Elizabeth Heger Boyle John W. Budd frey Kahn are working on an article and Affiliated Faculty NEW GRANTS symposium for that journal on genetic testing and disability insurance, based on a The Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Envi- National Institutes of Health (NIH)- ELIZABETH HEGER BOYLE ronment & the Life Sciences has received a 4-year, funded project. Professor Wolf is principal Professor Boyle, who has a joint appoint- $1.22 million grant from the National Science Foun- investigator and professors Jeffrey Kahn, ment in the Sociology Department and dation (NSF) to develop oversight models for nano- Frances Lawrenz, and Charles Nelson the Law School, continues to study technology. This project is an interdisciplinary effort (Harvard) are co-investigators on a two- human rights and international law. This and involves faculty from the Departments of Chemi- year NIH-funded project on managing year she co-authored “Institutional Vulner- cal Engineering and Materials Science, Mechanical incidental findings in human subjects ability and Opportunity: Immigration and research. They have a co-authored letter America’s ‘War on Terror’” with Erika Engineering, Chemistry, Applied Economics, Forest on the topic forthcoming in JAMA. Busse for Law & Social Inquiry, “Interna- Resources, and Genetics, Cell Biology & Development Upcoming presentations include a talk on tional Master Frames and African as well as the Division of Environmental Health Sci- issues raised by pediatric biobanks for the Women’s Explanations for Opposing ences and Health Policy & Management. Professor American Society for Bioethics and Female Genital Cutting” with Kristin Susan M. Wolf, Chair of the Consortium, is the Princi- Humanities and a panel on human Carbone for the International Journal of pal Investigator. The project began in September. embryo stem cell research for the Ameri- Comparative Sociology, and a chapter titled can Philosophical Society. “The Rise of the Child as an Individual Professor Kevin Washburn and Professors Carol Gold- in Global Society” with Trina Smith and Katja Guenther for Youth, Globalization, berg and Duane Champagne at UCLA have been JUDITH T. YOUNGER and the Law, edited by Sudhir Alladi awarded a $1.5 million grant from The National Insti- Professor Younger spent the late spring Venkatesh and Ronald Kassimir. Professor tute of Justice. The project entitled, “A Study of the and summer working on “Lovers’ Con- Boyle is chair-elect of the Sociology of Administration of Justice in Indian Country,” will tracts in the Courts: Forsaking the Mini- Law Section of the American Sociological examine how the legal and administrative arrange- mum Decencies,” an article on premarital, Association. She is also on the Board of ments for law enforcement and criminal justice in postmarital, and cohabitation agreements Trustees of the Law and Society Associa- Indian country may generate or exacerbate deficien- that will appear in a forthcoming issue of tion and is the Review Essay Editor of the William and Mary Journal of Women the Law & Society Review. cies in institutions for incarceration of Indian country and the Law. This fall, together with a adults and juveniles. The work began this fall and the group of students who initiated the idea, project will be housed at UCLA. she sought and received approval for a JOHN W. BUDD new course to be called “Choice: The Affiliated professor and professor in The Institute on Race & Poverty recently received Law of Reproductive Rights.” She hopes human resources and industrial relations two 3-year grants for General Operations Support: to teach the new offering, along with her at the Carlson School of Management, 1) $300,000 from the McKnight Foundation; other courses, in the 2007-2008 academic Professor Budd recently completed “Val- 2) $250,000 from the Otto Bremer Foundation. The year. Professor Younger is currently teach- ues, Ideologies, and Frames of Reference funding will be used to fund a variety of new and ing courses on wills and trusts and work- in Employment Relations” for the forth- ing on her reappointment lecture as the coming Sage Handbook of Industrial and ongoing research projects related to the Institute’s Joseph E. Wargo Anoka County Bar Asso- Employment Relations. He has been mission including the writing of “Region: A Vision ciation Professor of Family Law. The lec- working on a project analyzing employee for the Twin Cities” (working title). Both grants begin ture, “Across Curricular Boundaries: ignorance of pay-for-performance com- January 1, 2007. Searching for a Confluence between Mar- pensation plans as part of a National ital Agreements and Indian Land Transac- Bureau of Economic Research and Rus- tions,” is scheduled for March 27, 2007. sell Sage Foundation research project on shared capitalism. Professor Budd recently completed revisions for the second edition of Labor Relations: Striking a Balance, which received the 2005 Textbook Excel- lence Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association. The new edition will be available in January.

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FACULTY WORKS IN PROGRESS FALL 2006

Jane E. Kirtley Robert Kudrle Bernard M. Levinson Scott McLeod SEPTEMBER 8 Professor Adam Samaha JANE E. KIRTLEY the International Meeting of the Society Professor Kirtley delivered several lectures, of Biblical Literature in Edinburgh, Scot- University of Chicago Law School including “The War on Porn” at William land, where he co-organized a series of Undue Process Mitchell College of Law in April and panels concerned with the social and his- “Openness in Government” at the League torical context for promulgation of the 15 Professor Mary Pat Byrne of Women Voters’ national convention in Pentateuch in the Second Temple period. June, and she conducted a digital video This colloquium will lead to the publica- University of Minnesota Law School conference on freedom of information for tion of Pentateuch as Torah: New Models From Right to Wrong: A Historical Critique journalists in La Paz, Bolivia. She appeared for Understanding Its Promulgation and on panels on media law and ethics at Acceptance. Central to this volume will be of the 2000 Uniform Parentage Act many conferences, including those of the the question of the relation of biblical law 22 Professor Max Schanzenbach American Society of Access Professionals, to the legal systems of the Persian Empire, Association for Women in Communica- the development of Jewish law, and the Northwestern University School of Law tions, Media Law Resource Center, Graeco-Roman social world. A paperback Native American Journalists Association, version of his edited volume Theory and Judging Under the U.S. Sentencing Society of Professional Journalists, and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law: Guidelines Society of American Business Editors and Revision, Interpolation, and Development 29 Writers. Professor Kirtley was quoted appeared recently. Another edited volume Professor Lea VanderVelde extensively, including in the Guardian will appear by the end of November: University of Iowa Law School (London), Globe and Mail (Toronto), New Judge and Society in Antiquity will be York Times, Los Angeles Times, St. Peters- published as a special double issue of Dred Scott v. Sanford: A Case of burg Times, Providence Journal, Christian Maarav: A Journal for the Study of the Frontiersmanship Science Monitor, and U.S. News & World Northwest Semitic Languages and Litera- Report and by the Associated Press. She tures. The volume explores the various was a presenter at the Aspen Institute’s roles of the judge in relation to society in Arab-US Media Forum in June, and she ancient Mesopotomia, Israel, and in rab- OCTOBER was interviewed on numerous local and binic law, from antiquity through the national radio programs. Her article medieval period. Especially noteworthy 6 Professor Tom Cotter “Transparency and Accountability in a are societies in which the category of University of Minnesota Law School Time of Terror” was published in the “judge” is absent and alternative means Autumn 2006 issue of Communication of adjudication through arbitration Fair Use and Copyright Overenforcement Law and Policy. are practiced. 20 Professor Susanna Blumenthal ROBERT KUDRLE SCOTT MCLEOD University of Michigan Law School/ Professor Kudrle continued collaboration In addition to teaching the school law Visiting Associate Professor University with Professor Daniel Gifford on compar- courses for the College of Education and of Minnesota Law School ative antitrust policy; they are preparing a Human Development, Professor McLeod Law and the Modern Mind: The Problem manuscript on the treatment of price dis- spent much of the year helping school crimination in North America and the districts and state departments of educa- of Consciousness in American Legal Culture European Union. He published “A U.S. tion with their data-driven accountability 26 Professor Leandra Lederman Policy Change Leads to a Surprising Dis- initiatives. He continued as evaluator for covery about Canada” in Common Good: the Rochester Public Schools’ grant from Indiana University School of Law- Ideas from the Humphrey, edited by John the Smaller Learning Communities Pro- Bloomington E. Brandl, and “Cost-Benefit and Cost- gram of the U.S. Department of Educa- Effectiveness Analysis of the Impact of tion and published several articles and a Making the Tax Court More Judicial Fluoridation” in Healthcare in Kuwait, book chapter related to technology lead- edited by George Gillespie. ership issues in K-12 schools. As Director of the University Council for Educational Administration Center for the Advanced BERNARD M. LEVINSON Study of Technology Leadership in Edu- Professor Levinson’s new book came out cation (CASTLE), Professor McLeod last spring in French (L’Herméneutique de created several new technology resources l’innovation: Canon et exégèse dans l’Israël for school administrators, including biblique). Over the summer, he attended www.schooldatatutorials.org and his new

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Faculty Works In Progress, cont. NOVEMBER 2 Professor Tim Greaney St. Louis University School of Law Thirty Years of Solicitude: Antitrust Law Robin Stryker David E. Wilkins and Physician Collaboration 8 Professor Colm Campbell blog, www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org. In Foundation, and Center for Advanced February he facilitated a faculty retreat at Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. She is University of Ulster School of Law Microsoft headquarters for the universities writing a chapter on alternative political- involved in CASTLE’s Postsecondary cultural framings of discrimination for a Wars on Terror and the Resilience of Partnership Program. Professor McLeod is forthcoming book and on a review article International Law: British Experience in high demand as a keynote speaker and titled “Half Empty, Half Full, or Neither? in Northern Ireland trainer and recently gave presentations and Law, Inequality and Social Change,” to workshops for the Minnesota and South appear in the upcoming volume of the 17 Professor David Adelman Carolina departments of education, the Annual Review of Law & Social Science. University of Arizona Law School/Visiting Minnesota Educational Media Organiza- In November, Professor Stryker served tion, and the Red Wing (Minnesota) on an expert panel in Boston to examine Associate Professor University of Minnesota Schools. He is writing several technology- issues surrounding implementation and Law School related articles for the forthcoming Ency- effects of consent decrees in sex discrimi- Patent Metrics: The Mismeasure of clopedia of Education Law. nation cases. Panel discussions are intended to help update research being Innovation in the Biotech Patent Debate conducted by the Institute for Women’s 24 KAREN MIKSCH Policy Research and the WAGE (Women Thanksgiving Break – No Presentation Professor Miksch continues her research Are Getting Even) Project and funded by 30 Dr. C. Ford Runge on higher education law and the transi- the Ford Foundation. tion to college. Her presentation at the Distinguished McKnight University American Educational Research Associa- Professor of Applied Economics and Law, DAVID E. WILKINS tion (AERA) annual meeting in San University of Minnesota Francisco, “Don’t Bow to Peer Pressure: An adjunct professor of law and political Legal and Policy Justifications for Race- science and associate professor of Ameri- Schools as Fat Farms: Why School Lunch Conscious Programs,” will be included in can Indian politics, Professor Wilkins is so Bad a publication on access to higher educa- taught a one-week seminar on tribal sov- tion being developed by the Civil Rights ereignty at the Larom Summer Institute, Project at Harvard University. Professor Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Miksch also presented a four-hour work- Wyoming, and a series of classes for stu- DECEMBER shop at AERA, “Legal Research as a Tool dents employed by the San Manuel Band 8 and Method to Advance Education of Serrano Indians at Claremont Graduate Professor Kristin Hickman Scholarship,” along with colleagues Pro- University, Claremont, California. He University of Minnesota Law School fessor Phillip T.K. Daniel and Jeffrey C. completed work on the second edition of Sun. The three co-presenters were invited his book American Indian Politics and the Coloring Outside the Lines: Examining to conduct a Presidential Invited Session American Political System, released in July. Treasury’s (Lack of) Compliance with APA regarding law and education policy at the He wrote the chapter “Seasons of Procedural Requirements Association for the Study of Higher Edu- Change: Of Reforms, Melees, and Revo- cation annual conference in Anaheim, lutions in Indian Country” in American California, in November. Indian Constitutional Reform and the Rebuilding of Native Nations, edited by Eric Lemont. He also wrote the essay ROBIN STRYKER “Forging a Political, Educational, and Affiliated Professor Stryker (Professor of Cultural Agenda for Indian Country: Sociology, Scholar of the College [2004- Common Sense Recommendations 07]) continues her research project, “Social Gleaned from Deloria’s Prose” in Destroy- Science in Government Regulation of ing Dogma: Vine Deloria Jr. and His Equal Employment Opportunity,” sup- Influence on American Society, edited by ported by the National Science Founda- Steve Pavlik and Daniel Wildcat. tion. She received an Institute for Advanced Studies Fellowship to devote full-time efforts to this project in spring 2007. Professor Stryker continues participation in two national working groups on employment discrimination jointly funded by the American Bar Foundation, Ford

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will examine some major developments presently under way in the legal profession throughout the world,” he says. “I am hoping that it will serve as a prototype that can be adopted by law schools in this country and elsewhere.” His “Cases That Have Shaped and Shocked the Nation” is an upper-level undergraduate course designed as a primer on 20 of the best Welcome Additions known and most significant cases in American history.

A Minneapolis native, Stein says it’s good New and returning stars add strength to be home. “Over the last 12 years, I have made friends all over the world, but it’s to the faculty great to be back with the people I’ve known so well, for so long. And Min- nesotans are wonderful.” This fall, the Law School welcomed an unprecedented ten new faculty members—six permanent and four visiting professors—as New Faculty well as the returning Robert Stein. These scholars hail from many different backgrounds, represent a variety of fields, and offer a THOMAS COTTER wealth of diverse viewpoints. But all have two things in common: Tom Cotter joins the Law School’s intellectual property faculty on the heels of a a dazzling list of academic and professional accomplishments, and year at Washington and Lee University outspoken enthusiasm for the bracing and vibrant intellectual and after five years directing the intellectual property department at the University environment they have encountered at the Law School. We invite of Florida College of Law. He has found you to meet, in the following profiles, the newest members of the the Law School’s bustling intellectual Law School’s academic community.

Returning Faculty when he took on his leadership role at the ABA. He remained affiliated with the Law School until 1999. ROBERT STEIN After more than a decade as the executive Despite spending decades successfully director and chief operating officer of the managing large staffs of people and multi- American Bar Association, Robert Stein million dollar budgets, Stein views his came back to the Law School this year. return to the lectern as a homecoming of His storied history with the University of sorts and a chance to revisit his first calling. “I continue to serve on the boards of several large corporations, and so I still have plenty of opportunity to keep my hand in those kinds of operations. But I property department to be distinctly have always loved being in the classroom, invigorating. “Having so many top-notch and so I’m having a wonderful time,” he scholars as colleagues, both in my field says. “The students are smarter than ever and related ones, makes for a very stimu- and very dedicated. And the Law School lating environment and one that is highly is an exciting place to be right now, because conducive to the growth of good new it has so many talented faculty doing ideas,” he says. important work in their respective fields.” Cotter is a firm believer in the educational Stein’s scholarly focuses are estate planning value of simple conversation. “As much as and the international rule of law, the latter possible, I try to elicit a good classroom an outgrowth of his many years of travel discussion, especially around IP issues,” he and study of legal systems throughout the explains. “I try to approach the class much Minnesota spans five decades, beginning world. He taught estate planning in the as I would any group of bright and inter- with his undergraduate study in the fall, and for the spring, he is developing esting people sitting down for dinner or a 1950s. He received his J.D. in 1961 and two entirely new courses. “Rule of Law” drink and talking through an issue.” joined the Law School faculty in 1964, will draw upon his work to promote the where he stayed for the next 35 years, rule of law in developing democracies. He also believes that the study of intellec- serving as Dean from 1979 until 1994, “I’m excited about that course because it tual property is highly relevant for today’s

14 Perspectives WINTER 2007 Faculty Perspective law students. “Even if they do not become behavior and to accept only as a last resort term commitment to the Law School. “I specialists in the field, many lawyers find it the explanation that people are illogical.” really loved the intellectual atmosphere necessary to understand elements of intel- here and felt very supported in my differ- lectual property law,” he says. “Fueled by As with many scholars, Hill’s years of ent endeavors and writing projects,” the Internet, information has become practice continue to inform her work. In Kitrosser says. “I was particularly much more valuable, in so many different a series of papers on the role of legalese in impressed by the way in which faculty ways, and it creates a wide array of chal- business contracts, for instance, Hill turns members constantly talk about current lenges for companies that want to exert an academic’s perspective on this much- events, and often debate from positions of some control over that information.” maligned aspect of legal practice. “Legalese complete disagreement, and yet remain is something that people make fun of, yet entirely congenial.” The scope of Cotter’s own scholarly the push toward plain English never seems inquiry—such as unauthorized use of to quite happen, and so I became inter- Kitrosser sees enormous value in students materials for religious purposes, Fifth ested in why contracts are written this becoming conversant in constitutional Amendment implications of the federal way,” she says. law, regardless of their ultimate field of government’s use of intellectual property, practice. “In today’s world, you needn’t enforcement of copyrights on tattoos— Hill’s other research interests include look further than the front page of the reflects how the field cuts a broad behavioral law and economics, capital paper to see the many ways that interpre- swath over many aspects of commerce structure, contract theory, and law and tations of constitutional law constrain our and society. language. Currently, she is focusing her social and political debates,” she points scholarship on challenging the rationality out. “Lawyers are uniquely positioned, as of the law and economics paradigm and is citizens, to bring a special base of knowl- CLAIRE HILL continuing her work on tax shelters, edge about the constitution to the After spending last year as a visiting pro- financial instruments, and development broader public and political discussion.” fessor, Claire Hill has joined the Law economics. School’s regular faculty and is teaching a variety of corporate law courses as well as ALEXANDRA KLASS HEIDI KITROSSER Alexandra Klass hasn’t had to pack Heidi Kitrosser accepted a permanent much more than a briefcase between appointment at the Law School last fall the major stops on her professional path. after serving as a visiting professor during After many years as a partner with Dorsey 2005-2006. She teaches and writes about & Whitney in Minneapolis, Klass moved constitutional law, with particular emphasis on free speech, separation of powers, and government secrecy.

Although her academic career has taken her from coast to coast, including several years at Brooklyn Law School, Kitrosser had never considered landing perma- nently in the Upper Midwest. But she has found Minneapolis much to her taste. “To the surprise of my friends and colleagues seminars in law and economics, transactions, and corporate governance. Like other new faculty, Hill has noticed the Law School’s growing reputation for both intellectual vigor and congeniality. “The Law School and the University as a whole into academia in 2004, spending two years are really extraordinary places in success- at William Mitchell before joining the fully combining collegiality with serious Law School’s environmental law faculty scholarship and rigor,” she says. “One of last fall. the nice things about the school, and one of the reasons that I chose to be here, was Klass describes her teaching and scholarly that the faculty takes the students seri- work as a natural reflection of her long ously, which in turn feeds the students’ experience in litigating environmental and enthusiasm.” land use cases. “I dealt with tort and property law constantly in my practice,” she After nearly a decade in corporate law explains, “and my academic work is simi- practice, Hill says she was drawn to acade- in New York, I love Minneapolis,” she larly at the intersection of environmental mia by a desire to think deeply and reflect says. ”It’s a real city and yet is both acces- law with either property doctrine or tort.” on the nature of law and its interplay with sible and beautiful, with its many parks Her practical experience also influences human behavior. “Much of my work falls and lakes. The combination makes for a her approach in the classroom. Very few under the umbrella of law and economics,” very homey and appealing place to live.” students, even those in law school, feel she explains. “As an academic discipline, it comfortable talking in class, she says. “I teaches us to take very seriously that there Last year’s stint as a visiting professor also like to call on people randomly, and often, exists a good reason for any particular provided ample justification for a longer- and get them to talk about what they’ve

Perspectives WINTER 2007 15 Faculty Perspective read, because a huge part of being a with several colleagues while a research lawyer is being able to speak about legal fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for issues, whether casually to a client or more Internet and Society. Intended as a way to formally to the court.” continue their “water cooler” conversations, the blog covers developments and current Klass sees the Law School’s recent atten- events relating to information law and tion to developing its environmental law also provides McGeveran with a conven- program as a logical response to broader ient sounding board. “Blogs don’t replace social trends. “I think that the school has any part of scholarship, of course, but they recognized not only that students are very can augment it by providing a place to interested in the field but that it is work out early ideas and also make ideas tremendously important to society, both more widely available,” he says. “They’re locally and nationally,” she says. The field is also a great way of maintaining conversa- evolving rapidly because of issues relating tions and engaging with the news of the to climate change, land use, and develop- day.” ment pressures, she points out. Plus, its and social relevance of law and econom- many overlaps with such areas as biotech, McGeveran’s enthusiasm for his work is ics, Parisi offers a simple explanation: The intellectual property, and health make it derived from his engagement with infor- basic goal of law is to design incentives uniquely suited for interdisciplinary col- mation and technology as a citizen, a con- that encourage individuals to behave to laboration. “It’s a great time to be part of sumer, and a scholar. He says that infor- society’s best advantage. “But we know the faculty in this field, at such a wonder- mation law’s largely uncharted terrain that private incentives, what individuals ful university, with its many opportunities provides fertile ground for academic care for, and social incentives, what we for integrating work with the non-law inquiry, plus it is rapidly becoming key to want them to care for, do not always departments,” remarks Klass. “And I’m just everyday legal and business practices in converge,” he explains. “By identifying a thrilled to be here.” almost every industry: “My standard line is law’s economic consequences, law and that information is going to be to 21st economics can help policymakers design century law what the railroads were to the proper set of incentives to overcome WILLIAM McGEVERAN the 19th century and will be transforma- this divergence.” And because law and William McGeveran, who is making his tive of virtually every other field.” economics focuses on incentives rather professorial debut at the Law School, than methodology, it is equally useful brings a keen interest in information law in both the American common law and FRANCESCO PARISI European civil law traditions. “In the Francesco Parisi joined the Law School process of unification of law,” Parisi last fall as a full professor, bringing with predicts, “economic language will be him both prolific scholarship and an a valuable lingua franca.” extensive background in law and economics, comparative law, and international law. Originally from Italy, Parisi Visiting Faculty maintains ties to the European academic community and recently accepted a joint appointment at the University of DAVID ADELMAN Bologna. After 13 years at George David Adelman visits the Law School this Mason—a law school with a curriculum year from the University of Arizona, focused intently on law and economics-- where he is an associate professor of law Parisi says he was drawn to the challenge and director of Law & Science Initiatives. of testing his methodology and assump- Adelman, who holds a Ph.D. in chemical tions at a place like Minnesota, which is physics, sees his dual focus on intellectual to the growing intellectual property fac- home to scholars from across a broad property and environmental law as a nat- ulty. He has a variety of subspecialties, academic spectrum. ural extension of his scientific back- including data privacy, communications ground, especially since these two fields, and technology, and free speech. Parisi first encountered the field of law more than any others, exist at the juncture and economics while pursuing his J.S.D. of law and science. Although a New York native, McGeveran at Berkeley in the late 1980s, but he says is no stranger to Minnesota. He received his interest in the discipline actually began Not surprisingly, his scholarly work occu- his B.A. in political science from Carleton in childhood, when he found himself pies the same intersection. In one recent College, a choice made to avoid coastal drawn equally to his parents’ very differ- article, he examined whether patent met- myopia. “I was concerned that my view of ent professions. “My mother was a mathe- rics can adequately measure the impact of the world might have too closely resem- matician and my father was a judge on patenting on biotechnology innovation. bled that famous New Yorker cartoon the Italian Supreme Court, and so I had “I‘m interested in the use of quantitative showing a map of the U.S. as viewed from mixed loyalties,” he laughs. “With law and methods to understand more concretely the perspective of a New Yorker,” he says. economics, I discovered for the first time the impact of law on innovation, includ- that math had a bearing on the law, and so ing in the environmental area,” he With the well-wired connectivity charac- I ended up studying economics at Berke- explains. Although the issue sounds tech- teristic of an information law scholar, ley and starting my training all over again.” nical, it has profound societal implica- McGeveran maintains a second home in tions, he is quick to point out. cyberspace at “Info/Law,” a blog he started When asked to explain the practical value

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adaptive systems as learned from ecology kinds of lawyers, judges, and politicians and evolutionary biology can apply to with legal training have taken bold, systems of legal regulation. courageous, and sometimes far-seeing moves that have shaped where we are today,” she says. “And I think it is vital to SUSANNA BLUMENTHAL appreciate how much intellectual capital Susanna Blumenthal is new to the Law they have accumulated, whether it is a School but not the Twin Cities, having source of inspiration, or embarrassment, grown up here. On leave from the Uni- versity of Michigan Law School, she is teaching a course in American legal history this fall and will spend the spring completing a book about changing con- ceptions of human agency and responsibility in the history of American law. “With an issue like global warming, for instance, innovation is going to be key,” Economics has become a dominant he says. “We will have to be more sophis- framework for analyzing law in recent ticated in stimulating research and inno- years, says Blumenthal, but history vation to achieve the necessary reductions remains an important analytic lens for in carbon emissions, even as economies understanding law and legal doctrine, for are growing.” Most recently, Adelman has both practitioners and scholars. “It’s begun examining how lessons about inspiring to see ways in which different

Perspectives WINTER 2007 17 Faculty Perspective or an objective lesson about how not to the invaluable, real-world experience of And in the Wings approach a problem.” meeting real people with identifiable needs and then working collaboratively to The Law School stands poised to Blumenthal also believes that a solid meet those needs. welcome its two newest faculty grounding in legal history can help students become better lawyers. “In members in the fall of 2007: my teaching, I try to attune students ALEATRA WILLIAMS to the ways that history is used in legal When Aleatra Williams joined the Law argument, because that understanding School’s faculty as a visiting professor this RICHARD W. PAINTER can be helpful, and perhaps even essential, fall, it marked the culmination of long- to being an effective advocate,” she held plans to transition from private prac- explains. “Lawyers need to be able to tice to teaching. “Growing up, my dad criticize others’ use of history and to always said that I had a teacher’s heart,” mobilize history themselves when making recalls Williams. “I had always struggled a legal argument.”

LISA STRATTON Lisa Stratton is another of this year’s homegrown additions to the faculty. A member of the Class of 1993, she returns to the Law School as a visiting clinical professor to lead the Workers’ Rights Clinic. Before making the leap to acade- Richard W. Painter is a renowned scholar of professional responsibility, corporate governance, and securities regulation. He is the co-author of casebooks on securities enforcement and legal ethics and has between wanting to teach and wanting to extensive expertise on the Sarbanes-Oxley practice law, and I essentially had a light Act. Painter is currently Associate Counsel bulb moment during law school when I to the President in the White House realized I could do both.” Counsel’s Office, serving as the chief ethics lawyer for the Administration. Williams brings to teaching a commitment not only to making sure that students understand the fundamentals of CHANTAL THOMAS commercial law but to helping them realize their own capacity to find answers and mia, Stratton spent many years building a solve problems. She has been impressed successful nationwide practice represent- with the recipients of her method. “The ing plaintiffs in employment rights cases. students at the Law School have both intellectual stamina and a sense of cour- Stratton’s enthusiasm for the Workers’ tesy that is sometimes missing in lawyers Rights Clinic results from its mission to in private practice,” she observes. move beyond merely litigating cases and adopt a more holistic approach to legal As for her future scholarly work, Williams representation. “We are part of a broad, is in the early phases of two new projects. national movement to develop workers’ She is examining municipal ordinances clinics to protect the rights of immigrants, that forbid landlords from leasing to illegal especially day workers whose rights are immigrants, and she is studying aspects of often cast aside,” she explains. “With clin- commercial deals in countries such as ics like ours, law schools are working China and North Korea that are outside Chantal Thomas joins the Law School hand-in-hand with nonprofit agencies to the commercial monitoring norms of the from Fordham University, where she was provide legal services, not just in the tra- international community. an associate professor of law from 1996 ditional sense of filing cases but also by to 2006. She teaches and writes on inter- educating workers about their rights, national law and developing countries, including the right to collectively organize.” corporations, and law and globalization, with a particular focus on the relationship From Stratton’s perspective, directing the between international law and social Clinic combines the best parts of teaching justice. and practicing law. “It’s a luxury to choose cases based on your clients’ needs and the strength of the case, without worrying about making a profit,” she says. At the same time, she guides students through

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copyrighted works for education and economic-development objectives and Ruth Okediji to protect non-Western forms of cre- Professor of Law ative expression, such as oral literature and traditional knowledge. Ruth Okediji joined the Law School faculty in the 2002-2003 academic year. She is the William L. Prosser Closer to home, Okediji co-chaired Professor of Law, the inaugural Solly Robins Distinguished Research Fellow, and teaches and writes in the the System-wide Academic Task Force areas of contracts, intellectual property, and international trade. on Forging an International University, s a precocious 9-year-old an initiative to make Minnesota one of in New York City’s upper the world’s top three public universi- west side, Professor Ruth ties. Co-chair Allen Isaacman, Regents Okediji regularly dragged Professor of History, says, “She was a home a garbage bag full powerful voice for the value of indige- ofA books from the public library. She nous systems of knowledge and the sometimes read three a day. Her family role of local intellectuals in the global had moved to New York, where her production of knowledge.” father taught at Columbia University, To keep her skills sharp and teaching from Nigeria, and she and her siblings relevant, Okediji spends time with the were the only black students at her intellectual property group at Robins, exclusive private school. She buried Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, where she has herself in books to cope with the iso- opportunities to “learn from those lation she felt. Now when Okediji who have the challenging task of reflects on her passion for reading, the breathing life into the legal theory and devout Christian and member of Liv- rules I teach daily.” Partner Ronald J. ing Word Christian Center in Brook- versity Press accepted proposals for two Schutz (class of 1981) says Okediji has lyn Park, Minn., sees it as an outwork- books on international aspects of intel- made invaluable contributions in high- ing of a favorite scripture: “God works lectual property law. profile cases and mentoring young all things together for the good of Her latest undertaking involves the lawyers: “She has been a great role those who love Him.” intellectual history of intellectual prop- model and teacher.” Her future area of expertise came into erty rights. “If we are going to make Students remain her top priority, focus in college when a professor gave meaningful changes in the regulation Okediji says. She and her husband, her literature he got at a conference. of global proprietary rights over tech- Tade Okediji, a visiting associate pro- “It was about patents and technology nology, it is very important to under- fessor in the Department of Applied transfer,” Okediji recalls. “The rest is stand where current doctrines get their Economics, tirelessly mentor students history. For 21 years, I have been in life force,” she says. Another book in in various aspects of their lives. “Noth- love with this body of law that tries to the works is What Being a Lawyer Has ing is more important to us than our systematize intellectual endeavor and Taught Me About Effective Prayer. students,” she says. “They are the rea- provide a framework to encourage “Lawyers and the legal system need a son Tade and I work this hard and sustained creative expression and lot of prayer. Anyone who has attended believe so strongly in the mission and the dissemination of those works law school knows this,” she says with a role of institutions of learning.” to the public.” smile. Says Okediji: “On my tombstone, I Okediji got her LL.M. in 1991 and Okediji’s scholarship has real-world don’t want them to say I was a great S.J.D. in 1996 from Harvard, taught at impact. She has worked for United scholar or that I wrote wonderful the University of Oklahoma College Nations and U.S. programs to help books. I want them to say I was a of Law (1994-2002), and then came to developing countries comply with great friend and impacted their lives, the University of Minnesota. Still an international intellectual property not just in how they thought about avid reader, she now writes her own treaties and consulted with foreign- the law but in how they lived their books. She co-authored Copyright in government trade officials from South lives as people.” a Global Information Economy, a case- Africa to Central America. She has book on copyright law now in its sec- been at the forefront of efforts to By Scott Russell, a Minneapolis-based ond edition, and recently, Oxford Uni- design methods to expand access to freelance writer.

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Two heads may be better than one, especially when they share a drive for results. BY CATHY MADISON

s a guest seated on the comfy couch in the corner office with the spectacular sky views, youA have only to look beyond your nose to see how the University of Minnesota Law School’s two interim deans are different: younger and older, darker and lighter, slimmer and not so. On this day, Guy-Uriel E. Charles sports a turtleneck sweater with his suit; Fred L. Morrison wears one of his 220 collectible silk ties with his. And if these obvious distinctions aren’t enough, they’ll supply more.

Charles grew up in a big city on the East Coast. institution and the goals of the institution,” says Morrison. Morrison is from a tiny town in Kansas. “He speaks French “I’ve loved and served it for almost 40 years, and Guy and I speak German,” Morrison says with a grin, pointing wants to love and serve it for 40 years.” at his colleague. “And the only thing we fight about is that he likes to use Word and I like to use WordPerfect.” A winning package Shaking his head, Charles retorts: “WordPerfect is a dying Morrison served as the Law School’s interim dean once breed.” But Morrison doesn’t miss a beat: “I still speak before. A recognized scholar of international law and Latin, too.” comparative public law, he joined the faculty in 1969, They say that they have, on the surface at least, almost after earning advanced degrees at Oxford and Princeton nothing in common. Yet listening to them, it is impossible Universities and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. to miss how well their gears mesh, how committed they A Rhodes Scholar and Fulbright Professor, he has pub- are to their mutual mission, and how poised they are to lished widely, accumulated numerous professional accolades pounce—together, as one—on the opportunities that and, in 1997, won the University of Minnesota President’s

John Noltner their two-year stint offers. “We share a dedication to the Award for Outstanding Service.

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Morrison’s experience, not only in teaching and the Law School at this time,” Sullivan says, adding that he research but also in administration, runs wide and deep, often fields questions about the unusual setup from other especially given the fact that he has carefully observed not administrators around the country. “Together, you have a one or two but five deans take their turns at the Law real wow package.” School’s helm. In his words, he has seen which things work A national search for a new dean (singular) is planned, and which don’t. “Fred really does know everything,” says of course, but Sullivan and others say that it will be a delib- Charles. “He’s done everything at this University except erate, thoughtful process that won’t begin until spring 2007 become president.” and will probably last until early 2008. That schedule leaves Charles, a director of the Institute on Law and Politics enough time for the co-deans to settle in and get some- and senior fellow in law and politics at the Institute on thing done. That something, however, won’t be keeping the Race and Poverty, is the newbie. He joined the faculty ball rolling or maintaining status quo. In fact, the co-deans in 2000 after earning his J.D. from the University of face substantial challenges, and Sullivan hopes the timeline Michigan, where he was also a graduate student in political will give them a nimbleness they wouldn’t otherwise have. science. He was editor-in-chief of the Michigan Journal of “A longer term as interim deans will give them greater Race & Law and an adjunct professor at the University of discretion and authority to move forward with strategic Toledo School of Law, and he clerked for the Honorable planning and visionary thinking,” Sullivan says. “We want Damon J. Keith of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth them to be very assertive as leaders of the school. These are Circuit. He focuses on constitutional law, civil procedure, not caretaker positions.” election law, law and politics, and race. While he can’t yet match the degree of wisdom Morrison has gleaned from Forward in double time his years of experience, Charles can provide the youthful The deans are well aware of their non-caretaker designa- energy and enthusiasm necessary to sustain the momentum tion and refer to it often. In broad-brush terms, they see both will need to accomplish their shared goals. their goals as “bigger, better, faster.” But their mission con- tains specific points as well. Stretching the box Near the top of their to-do list, and perhaps a factor in The decision to hire two deans had more than a few the decision to tap two brains instead of one, is completing onlookers—students, faculty, and alumni alike—scratching and submitting a proposal for the Robina Foundation, the their heads. Observers won’t admit that they were skep- legacy of James Binger (class of 1941). Already one of the tical, exactly. But most readily agree that the decision was, Law School’s most generous contributors, Binger left well, unexpected.Among them was Walter F. Mondale behind a philanthropic fund when he died in 2004. (class of 1956), who keeps close watch on all that happens Estimated to be worth as much as $200 million, the fund is in the hall that bears his name. to be dispersed within two decades among four of his “Yes, I was surprised,” Mondale says. “But it was a favorite beneficiaries: Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Yale unique, and I think very successful, decision to make. It University, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Law just never occurred to me.” Amy Bergquist (class of 2007) and editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Law Review, concurs. “My initial response was that it is kind of odd to have co-deans, In broad-brush terms, they see their but it doesn’t seem to be problematic.” She points out that not only are two goals as “bigger, better, faster.” heads better than one but also it’s now possible to have a dean in two places at once. “Given the different qualities that these two deans bring to the job, it makes a lot of sense,” she adds. School. It is up to each institution to propose funding for “We like to think out of the box here in Morrill major, transformative initiatives. Although it is too early to Hall,” says E. Thomas Sullivan, who made the decision to speculate on details, Morrison and Charles say that much double up. Now Provost and Senior Vice President for work has already been done to determine how restruc- Academic Affairs, he had prior experience with interim turing the curriculum, operations, or research might trans- deans at the Carlson School of Management, and he form the Law School. They intend to complete the pro- thought the model worked “exceedingly well.” As former posal process before a new dean comes on board. Law School dean, he also knew the candidates; he hired Funding, or compensating for the lack of it, looms Charles and worked closely with Morrison for years. He large in the co-deans’ agenda. The significant loss of state realized that although they are different individuals, their funding in recent years makes private-sector fund-raising experience, interests, backgrounds, and skill sets are com- more crucial than ever before, especially as faculty recruit- plementary. A co-dean combo, he decided, is a good fit for ment stakes rise, law schools compete for the best students, the moment. and tuition costs climb. (Charles says the current tab of “Structure should follow purpose, form, and function. $23,516 for in-state tuition and fees and $33,016 for out- In this case, we changed the structure to fit the needs of of-state residents has nearly doubled since he arrived.) The

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“The issue goes beyond the narrow conception of diversity. We’re talking about broad access, a commitment to high-quality, affordable public education.”—Guy-Uriel Charles

deans say they will be doing a lot of development; fortu- the past. Sullivan’s near-term goal is for the Law School to nately, both are good at the communicating that develop- be ranked in the top 15. ment entails and plan to step up the pace. Morrison is Although students of color comprise 19 percent of the frank: “If we lose momentum, we’re in trouble.” class of 2009, diversity is another primary goal—not just “I expect to see a lot more connecting and relation- racial diversity but also economic, cultural, political, and ship-building,” says Stacy Bettison (class of 1999), imme- geographic diversity. “The issue goes beyond the narrow diate past president of the Law Alumni Association Board conception of diversity. We’re talking about broad access, a of Directors. She is happy to have two persons available to commitment to high-quality, affordable public education,” handle such a wide range of duties, and she expects their Charles says. “We’re talking about making sure that the progress to be faster than it would be under one indi- door is open to the average citizen, the excellent student vidual. But progress takes resources, of course. “There are who comes from a different type of background and can’t core things that alumni care about, and those are an out- afford the high price that legal education now commands.” standing faculty, an outstanding student body, and main- Mondale, for one, shares this concern. “In my day, you taining our reputation. The desire to be viewed as a could just walk in and attend law school. You’ll never be national law school with a national student body and a able to do that again,” he says. “But there’s a real danger, nationally recognized faculty is always there.” not only in law schools but also medical schools and such, in bending to the tyranny of national rating services. I Raising the excellence bar hope we don’t become just an elitist dot on the top of some The deans are adamant about building on the solid foun- outside analysts’ tote sheet. What about the human side?” dation laid by their predecessor, Alex M. Johnson, Jr. In the past year, seven individuals have joined the faculty. Two The personal touch more have already been hired for 2007, and the deans say Focusing on access is one way to address the human side; they will continue to hire aggressively. That is no simple leadership is another. Bergquist says she was lucky to have task in such a competitive national environment. Just main- Morrison for constitutional law for an entire year, even if taining 19th place in the U.S. News & World Report ranking, the class was at 8 a.m., and she is confident that the deans which the Law School currently shares with George will not lose sight of this goal. She finds Morrison a Washington University in D.C. and Washington University straightforward, personable, open man, and one who clearly in St. Louis, means fending off much larger challengers enjoys what he does. From what she has seen so far, she with greater resources. suspects that the same is true of Charles. Both seem very Even narrowing the gap between Minnesota and the involved in reaching out to alumni, students, and the com- schools directly above it in the rankings would constitute munity, she says—unusually so. success, the deans point out. In addition to hiring aggres- “I get the impression that they want to be responsive sively and broadening the interdisciplinary nature of the to any problems going on and to make sure that students faculty, they aspire to maintain and improve the scholastic feel they’re being listened to and supported by the dean’s quality of the entering classes. “We are to move the Law office. Which isn’t to say there wasn’t that feeling during School ahead,” says Morrison. “If you stand still, you’re the previous administration, but they do seem to be taking falling behind.” more initiative in that regard,” Bergquist says. The Law School’s academic reputation and the fac- Their ability to stay close to students and connected to ulty’s scholarly productivity are “inexorably linked” to a the community is part of what appealed to both deans as student body with a stellar academic profile, says Sullivan. they considered this uncommon working arrangement. As “One follows from the other.” This year’s entering class is Charles explains, both had to take many teaching responsi- the best ever, with a median LSAT score of 165 (equivalent bilities, speaking engagements, and other commitments off to 650 on the old scale) and a GPA of 3.75 or better their plates in order to accept this position. But neither had among at least a quarter of the class. to forfeit everything. Both still teach. Morrison, who is And while the applicant pool was down nationwide heavily involved in international programs, travels often. this past year, it was up at Minnesota, which receives about Both retain their old offices, which they say gives them not 3,500 applications a year. The deans say that the admissions only the comfortable security of “home” but also the real- folks have been working very hard, which means that the istic perspective they need to do a good job upstairs in the Law School is competing more effectively than it has in deans’ corner.

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They keep the door between their administrative offices open and trust each other implicitly.

Apparently the co-dean combo is working. “I think it’s clicking,” says Mondale, who knows both men. “It sounds like I’m trying to gild the lily, but I’ve checked around over MARK YOUR there at the Law School and in the President’s office, and CALENDAR! people have a very good feeling about this. I’m very pleased.” Compare and contrast “We’re exactly alike in all ways,” Morrison intones. The University of Minnesota Law School Presents Laughing, Charles fills in. “We’re both even-tempered individuals, not easily riled and not prone to extreme CONTINUING LEGAL reactions or hysteria. We don’t panic right away. We’re both similarly creative; we don’t have a rigid, fixed outlook. EDUCATION PROGRAM It’s that rational way of looking at things that we both 2007 share. It would be hard if you had one very creative person and one very linear thinker, or if you had one who was extremely exuberant and another who showed no emotion. I think we have a little bit of each quality in SUPER CLE WEEK XXVII both individuals.” Morrison confesses that it’s much nicer this time than Monday, March 12— when he was a solo interim dean; now he can share his Saturday, March 17 worries with someone. Charles calls Morrison his lead blocker, the guy who manages to eliminate all the opposi- Including all the ethics and bias credits tion before Charles even walks into the room to present his proposals. And, he adds, their formidable joint front puts you will need for the reporting period. everyone else at a disadvantage. As far as compatibility is concerned, they have plenty AND going for them. Their working relationship was already well-established. They know what needs to be discussed and what doesn’t. They don’t fight. They don’t interrupt each other. They keep the door between their administra- SUMMER CLE XXVIII tive offices open and trust each other implicitly. And when Charles recently sprained his ankle playing soccer, Tuesday, May 29— Morrison remembered to pull the car up to the circle Friday, June 8 drive and offer a ride. They say they have the same philosophy about most Featuring University of Minnesota things in life. They even share an email address. “The first Law School Faculty person to read them handles them,” Morrison says. “I know what he’d say without even talking about it.” They deal with about 60 to 70 percent of their correspondence without exchanging a word, which leaves time and energy FOR MORE INFORMATION, for the important issues. PLEASE VISIT “We’re standing in similar places with a slightly dif- www.law.umn.edu ferent angle, but we see the same things,” says Charles. Adds Morrison: “I think it’s a marvelous arrangement.” OR CALL (612) 625-6674.

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24 Perspectives WINTER 2007 Hedin Alcove Lightens the Load 1 fter long days of studying, students can find a 1. Barbara S. and Douglas A. Hedin welcome respite at the University of Minnesota ALaw Library’s new Barbara Steffens Hedin 2. Donald M. Fraser (‘48), Arvonne S. Alcove on Law, Literature, and the Arts. Creation Fraser, Mary Doty, Judge David S. Doty of the Alcove was made possible by a generous (‘61) donation to the Law Library by Barbara S. and Douglas A. Hedin, who funded renovation of the 3. Walter F. Mondale (‘56) (center) space and donated their extensive collection of with students from the class of ‘07: 2 classic and popular legal fiction. The collection Masha Yevzelman, Fredricka Ung, includes legal humor, poetry, plays featuring the Megan Healy, Joshua Colburn, bench and bar, and artwork, as well as secondary Jessica Johnson, Jason Zucchi, works that comment on the relationship of law Amy Bergquist to literature and art. 4. Alumni, faculty, students, and friends gathered Associate Dean Joan S. Howland, Sept. 6, 2006, to celebrate the opening of the Barbara S. Hedin, Douglas A. Hedin, Barbara Steffens Hedin Alcove on Law, Literature, Dean Guy-Uriel Charles 3 and the Arts. A recent graduate commented, 5. “Students will be able to relax in the company of Professor David S. Weissbrodt and Dean Charles wooden bookcases, legal fiction, and artwork. This space will inspire and rejuvenate weary researchers as well as showcase the intersections between law and other pursuits, suggesting the importance of creativity within the structure and discipline of the law.” 4 Barbara S. Hedin received her B.A. Phi Beta Kappa from the College of St. Catherine and her M.A. in public administration from Hamline University. Douglas A. Hedin received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota and his LL.B. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Both are voracious readers, especially of legal fiction. 5

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At the Law School ❯❯ Arvonne S. Fraser, The Honorable Donald M. Fraser (’48), The Honorable Diana E. Murphy (’74), and Dean Guy-Uriel E. Charles at the Heaney Reception.

LAW BRIEF The Law Library is the 8th

❯ largest law library in the U.S. Provost E. Thomas Sullivan (right) with Don (’39) • Over 1,000,000 volumes and and Lydia Engebretson at the Lockhart Dinner. volume equivalents

• 29 library staff ❯ • 349 study carrels Peju Solarin scans the baked goods • Total seating is 846 at the 2006 Community Fund Drive bake sale this fall.

LAW BRIEF

Staff participation in the Community Fund Drive was

the most successful yet. The ❯ Law School received a Top 10 Professor Jack M. Balkin from Participation Award for units Yale University Law School delivered with over 100 employees. The William B. Lockhart Lecture this fall. Over $31,393 was raised by

Law School participants alone. LAW BRIEF ❯❯

There was active participation in the employee • The Law School endowment recognition Jeopardy game. Co-workers learned: is valued at $99.6 million. Ann Hagen has a Masters Degree in bassoon • The annual budget is $27 million. performance, 13 staff members are also lawyers, Bonnie Johnson has been at the Law School the longest—over 37 years and an Army veteran on staff, Anita Cole, recently spoke at the United Nations.

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❯ Lectures

and op-ed pieces for publications such War and the Law as the New York Times, Washington Post, and New Republic. In 2001 he delivered The 2006-2007 Lecture Series has thus far brought respected experts to the Law School to discuss the the prestigious Storrs Lectures at the War on Terror’s effects on the law. For more information on the following and other endowed lectures, Yale Law School, and in 2003 the go to www.law.umn.edu/events/2006-2007lectureseries.html. Notre Dame Law Review devoted an issue to com- JACK M. BALKIN’S WILLIAM B. of the American Academy of Arts and mentary on his LOCKHART LECTURE Sciences, Balkin has written on legal work. Fletcher’s issues for The New York Times, Boston diverse legal N OCTOBER 10, 2006, AT Globe, Washington Monthly, and several experience OLockhart Hall, Professor Jack others. He is founder and director includes prose- M. Balkin spoke about the of Yale Law School’s interdisciplinary cuting cases in impact of 21st century warfare and Information Society Project, which stu- Los Angeles, foreign policy on our government in dies law and information technologies. running summer “The National Surveillance State.” programs in Such a state The William B. Lockhart Lecture Budapest for features an honors William B. Lockhart, Law Eastern European increase in the School professor (1946-74) and dean lawyers, editing collection of (1956-72). Dean Lockhart was instru- a magazine on intelligence and mental in enriching the Law School Jewish law philosophy, and moderating surveillance curriculum, attracting exceptional faculty “Socratic dialogues” on PBS. (particularly and students, and cultivating a strong through new relationship with the Minnesota Bar. The John Dewey Lecture in the digital tech- Philosophy of Law honors John nologies) by an Dewey (1859-1952), an American expanded net- GEORGE P. FLETCHER’S JOHN philosopher, educator, scholar, and pro- work of security DEWEY LECTURE ponent of legal realism. Dewey’s phi- bureaucracies, losophy related his concept of a moral and a further T LOCKHART HALL ON life to a variety of contemporary shift of power from the Congress to AOctober 24, 2006, Professor social, economic, and political issues. the executive branch. A national sur- George P. Fletcher explained his He spent one year as a professor of veillance state and the executive’s ideas about the body of customary philosophy at the University of growing war power, Balkin says, international law that constitutes the Minnesota. The Lecture is funded by a threaten civil liberties: First, they strip law of war in his lecture, “The Law of grant from the John Dewey away the constitutional protections of War and its Pathologies.” Fletcher, Foundation and is sponsored by the the criminal justice system, since threats Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Law School to provide a forum for to the country are treated as matters of Columbia University School of Law, significant scholarly contributions to national security rather than as mere writes and speaks on criminal law, the development of jurisprudence. crimes. Second, they encourage the constitutional law, and international criminal justice system to adopt national affairs. One of the country’s most security enforcement methods, which widely cited legal experts, he has pub- bypass the checks and balances pro- lished more than 100 scholarly articles vided by the judiciary and the legisla- and several books. A review of his Horatio Ellsworth Kellar tive branch. (Check out Balkin’s Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in weblog at http://balkin.blogspot.com.) the Age of Terrorism described the book Distinguished Visitor Program as “a wonderfully unlawyerly account, Reed Hundt, principal of Charles Ross Partners Balkin is the Knight Professor of a philosophical investigation, of indi- Constitutional Law and the First vidual agency, responsibility, and guilt.” LLC, a private investor and advisory service, Amendment at Yale Law School. He will present “In China’s Shadow: The Crisis of received his Ph.D. in philosophy from As a public commentator, Fletcher American Entrepreneurship” on Feb. 20, 2007, Cambridge University and his A.B. and appears often on television as a pundit at Lockhart Hall. J.D. from Harvard University. A member on legal issues. He has written articles

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Presented by Minnesota Law Review and the Minnesota Center for Legal Studies Symposium on Global Response to Terrorism Post 9/11

he nation’s leading justify the use of state power to detain Intelligence Surveillance Act] and a Tscholars in national security and suspected terrorists, engage in extraor- plea for our government to restore the emergency powers law gathered dinary rendition of aliens to foreign constitutional values that FISA wisely at the Law School on Oct. 13, 2006, states, interrogate detainees, and wage straddled—promoting national security for a symposium presented by war against Iraq. The panel also while safeguarding civil liberties.” Minnesota Law Review and the included a discussion of the effects of Minnesota Center for Legal Studies 9/11 on immigration law, particularly A focal point of the symposium was entitled “9/11, 5 Years On: A regarding the Mexico-U.S. border. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. One panelist con- Comparative Look at the Global sidered the legislative response in con- Response to Terrorism.” Panelists Another panel considered “The junction with the editorial reactions to included William Banks of Syracuse Executive Branch and Secrecy” and that decision and argued that the deci- University, Mariano-Florentino Cuellar discussed reconciling government sion has been misinterpreted as pro- of Stanford University, Patrick needs for both transparency and secu- viding a purely legal solution to what Gudridge of the University of Miami, rity following 9/11. Analysis of the is more fundamentally a political Sanford Levinson of the University of issues included a comparison of the problem. One speaker characterized Texas, Jules Lobel of the University of frameworks of our government and Justice Stevens’ majority opinion in the Pittsburgh, Bernard Trujillo of the political networks employing terrorist case as “casual constitutional analysis, University of Wisconsin, Mark Tushnet methods, concluding with the observa- focusing mostly on statutes, treaties, of Harvard University, and Fionnouala tion that despite deep ideological dif- and standard practices and depicting Ni Aoláin, Oren Gross, Heidi Kitrosser, ferences between the two, both face those legal materials, even if sometimes and David Weissbrodt of the University similar challenges in accountability, sur- seemingly intricate, as at bottom of Minnesota. veillance of discretionary activity, and straightforward.” inclusion of dissenting views. One One panel discussed “The Preventive panelist called his presentation a By Shana Bachman (’07) symposium editor. Paradigm,” which has been invoked to “requiem for FISA [the Foreign

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Celebrating 25 Years with the University of Uppsala Faculty of Law

In 2008, the University of Minnesota Law School will celebrate 25 years of cooperation and exchange with the University of Uppsala Faculty of Law. Festive gala events will be held in both the Twin Cities and Uppsala in September 2008. If you are interested in volunteering to help, contact Debbie Gallenberg at [email protected]. Please watch for more information in the next issue of Perspectives.

❯Loyalty Runs Deep at the Law School

In October, several staff members were recognized for their years of service. Pictured with Dean Morrison and Dean Charles from left to right are: Kay Johnson (20 years), Daniel Matthews (5 years), Laurie Newbauer (35 years), Mary Suek (20 years), Mary Stoehr (25 years), Thanh Ho (5 years), Paula Swanson (10 years) and LaVonne Molde (35 years)

❯People and Changes

Alumni Relations New Staff Hires July 1– • Caryn Lantz, Office Support December 31, 2006 Assistant, Admissions The Office of External Relations • Lori Peterson, Executive Office and has been re-named the Office of • Kelsey Dilts, Donor Relations Administration Specialist/Faculty Development and Alumni Relations. Manager, Development Support Staff includes: • Tryphena Fields, Executive Office • Rima Reda, Office Support Assistant, • Martha Martin, Director of and Administration Specialist/ Human Rights Development Faculty Support • Paula Seeger, Circulation Librarian • Scotty Mann, Director of Alumni • Zehra Gumus-Dawes, Research • Nicole Smiley, Principal Officer and Relations & Annual Giving Fellow, IRP Administration Specialist, Law • Sara Jones, Assistant Director of • Cynthia Huff, Interim Director of Clinics Development Communications • Moncia Wittstock, Executive • Anita Cole, Assistant Director of • Julie Hunt, Executive Office and Administrative Specialist, JDP & Alumni Relations & Annual Giving Administration Specialist/Faculty Consortium • Kelsey Dilts, Donor Relations Manager Support • Mark Swanson, Executive Assistant, • Riddhi Jani, Program Director, Development Office International Programs

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The Alumni–Student Connection Repay your mentor by being one.

rom astrophysicists to Some additional options: Fzoologists, most successful professionals can point to at least one • Host a Spring Break Shadow person who offered help and encour- program during the week of agement at some stage in their careers. March 12, 2007. This program, An experienced and trusted adviser—a geared primarily for first-year law mentor—is an important and valuable students, allows beginners to asset, whether the relationship began “shadow” a professional on the job to with a supervisor, colleague, net- get a look at real-world situations. working contact, or friend of a friend. Programs have featured informal chats, trips to court, and meetings “Mentoring is a scary proposition, You can help law students take their with new attorneys, practice group but when I came to the table with first steps on the path to profession- leaders, and recruiting professionals. an open mind and heart it made for alism by reaching out through the Hosts have opened their offices or an amazing experience. By being in a Alumni-Student Connection, a new chambers for a single student or mentoring partnership with a fellow program sponsored by the Career & more than a dozen for programs attorney who both cared about where Professional Development Center lasting an hour or an entire day with I went in my career and valued my (CPDC), Law School Public Service lunch included. It’s up to you. experiences, I felt comfortable sharing Committee, and the Office of Alumni my insight and ‘wisdom,’ and inevitably Relations. • Contribute to “Graduates At I helped him find some direction in his Work,” a growing collection of own legal career. It was pretty amazing A true 21st century mentoring pro- interviews and essays in a pass- how something that seemed scary gram, the Alumni-Student Connection word-protected location on the became a truly rewarding partnership.” embraces available technology, offering CPDC Web site. Soon you will be several options for school-year and able to post audio essays and inter- — Roshan N. Rajkumar (’00), year-round electronic activities. views on the site. Bowman and Brooke LLP Attorneys across Minnesota, throughout the country, or around the • Become the Alumni Connect for world can make connections with a your employer. Whether your student through email and phone. employer recruits 100 associates Even those who live in the Twin Cities every summer or an attorney or law and prefer traditional in-person men- clerk every five years, your connec- Law to a toring will appreciate the convenience tion to the CPDC helps pave the of email to schedule meetings and way for students and alumni to find different drummer keep in touch. work. If you are working in an alternative We hope you will consider mentoring You can register for the Alumni- career—outside of traditional law a student who is interested in your Student Connection at www.law.umn. practice or without the title of practice area or is in your part of the edu/cso/alumni.html or find the link lawyer—the Alumni-Student country. We recommend making at for alumni relations at www.law. Connection needs you. least three contacts with your student umn.edu. If you have questions or each semester and during the summer. suggestions, please contact Susan Many more students than ever Priority for mentor matches will go to Gainen at (612) 624-9881 or before come to law school with second- and third-year law students. [email protected]. no intention of practicing law, and they are looking for ways By Susan Gainen, who began her 15th year at to create their own career path. the Law School in July. She currently chairs Your insights and experiences the National Association for Law Placement’s are vital to their decision making. new Law Student Professionalism Section.

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Judge Heaney Honored for Lifetime of Service

N OCT. 10, 2006, THE OLaw School and Deans Fred Morrison and Guy-Uriel Charles hosted a reception honoring Judge Gerald W. Heaney for his public service achievements and outstanding 40-year career on the bench. Appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, Judge Heaney dedicated his career to equal justice and equal opportunities for all citizens. Tributes touching on The Honorable Judge The Honorable Myron Bright (’47) and Warren his accomplishments, compassion, and community service were delivered Gerald W. Heaney (’41) Spannaus (’63) by the Honorable Warren R. Spannaus (class of 1963), the Honorable Throughout his life, Judge Heaney has lished to perpetuate the inspiration and Walter F. Mondale (class of 1956), worked as a volunteer and advocate for courage that Judge Heaney demon- the Honorable Donald P. Lay, the financial aid for education. In 2006, he strated throughout his career, eligible Honorable Myron Bright (class of and his wife Eleanor made a major gift for the University of Minnesota 1947), Provost E. Thomas Sullivan, to the Gerald and Eleanor Heaney President’s Scholarship Match program. Professor Mary Patricia Byrn (class of Law School Scholarship fund, created 2003), and Professor Myron Orfield. in 1989 by former law clerks, col- If you’d like to contribute to the fund, leagues, and friends. The Heaneys’ gift contact Director of Development, Judge Heaney reflected on his early made the scholarship, which was estab- Martha Martin at (612) 625-2060. days at the Law School, which included a six-week illness that prompted then-Dean Everett Fraser to recommend his starting over the following year. With the help of his counselor, Horace Reed, Judge Heaney convinced the Dean that he should stay in school and he went on to graduate in 1941.

Noting the cost of a Law School education today compared with what he paid ($23,516 versus $500 annually for residents), Judge Heaney expressed concern that current graduates don’t have the same opportunity to do what they want with their degree because of the high debt they carry after graduation. He voiced his gratitude for being able to make choices in his own career, and said he hopes to get the Minnesota Legislature to provide more funding for good students from modest-income families.

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East Meets Midwest 2006 Summer Program Highlights

ROM MAY 27 TO JUNE 30, 1 Fthe Law School conducted its first summer Study Abroad Program in Beijing, China. The Law School offered the five- week program in conjunction with the prestigious China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL). Focused on comparative economic law, the program allowed 22 J.D. students from the University of Minnesota and other law schools to study 2 firsthand the Chinese economic, legal, and political systems.

Participating faculty members from the Law School were Associate Dean Meredith McQuaid, who served as program director; Professor John Matheson, who served as on-site co-director and taught Comparative 3 Business Entities; and Professor Ann Burkhart, who taught Comparative Land Use. From CUPL, Dean Stephen Hsu served as on-site co-director and taught Introduction to Chinese Economic Law. Students also had the opportunity to enroll in beginning or intermediate Mandarin Chinese courses.

As part of their hands-on learning 1. View of the Great Wall of China. experience, students visited important 4 2. Emily Kraack (’08) and Matt Janiga (’08) legal institutions in Beijing, such as the tour Beijing hutongs. Supreme People’s Court, the National 3. Matt Roman (’08), Karin Larson (’07), People's Congress, and the Beijing Emily Kraach (’08) enjoy the company Municipal Institute of City Planning. of CUPL students. They also experienced the rich culture 4. At night outside the Forbidden City. and history of China through a trip to a kung fu demonstration and Chinese acrobatic troupe performance, a practiced their recently acquired Recently, the Chinese Ministry of hutong tour by pedicabs, a reception Chinese skills as they shopped and Education approved the LL.M. held by the Beijing American ate out. Some students traveled on Program in Beijing, the first of its Chamber of Commerce, and a lesson the weekends to Shanghai, Xian, and kind in China designed to familiarize in paper cutting by a renowned Inner Mongolia. international lawyers with the U.S. Chinese artist. legal system. Classes will begin in The program in 2007 will build on summer 2007 and will be taught by Before and after classes started, students the success of the first program by U.S. faculty in Beijing. The program explored the city on their own—by adding a weekend trip to Shanghai for will add yet another international bicycle, by taxi, and on foot—and professional and cultural events. dimension to the Law School.

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Corporate Externship Gives Students Practical Experience

HE LAW SCHOOL WELCOMED Tits newest transactional skills opportunity in the 2006 summer session—the Corporate Externship Program, a component of the Center for Business Law. Students who took this two-credit course spent at least 100 hours in the corporate legal department of one of 14 Minnesota companies.

Professor John Matheson, co-director of the Center, had no problem signing up externship placement supervisors. He has perfected the art of recruiting volunteers from among his former students. As mentors, they provided a rich array of on-site experiences for the students. Mary Alton, Program Director and Clinical Faculty for the Center, administered the program. Tony Jones (class of 2007), whose Students encountered the transactional externship was at the Donaldson tasks faced every day by in-house Company, said “I wanted to gain real- counsel in medium-to-large corpora- life transactional experience, and this tions. One researched different coun- was the perfect opportunity to do just tries’ laws on independent contractor that. I plan on working for a law firm intellectual property rights. Another after graduation, and that made the made the company’s employee manual externship an outstanding opportunity more user friendly. Others drafted and to view the legal services from a client redrafted documents, such as vendor perspective.” Tony Jones (’07) Gordon Hage (’07) agreement templates and licensing documents. Gordon Hage (class of 2007) spent his 100+ hours at H.B. Fuller Company. PARTICIPATING COMPANIES When they weren’t researching and “This was a great chance to find out writing, students could be found brain- whether a corporate legal department 3M Company storming solutions for antitrust issues, will be a good fit for me,” he said. Alliant Techsystems helping prepare for a negotiation “I worked on diverse projects, from Allina Health System between parent and subsidiary compa- contracts to securities issues, and I Donaldson Company nies, or crafting a list of corporate gov- had a chance to learn about fields that Ecolab ernance questions that shareholders I had no prior class experience in, Graco might ask at an annual meeting. like patent law.” H.B. Fuller Company Land O’Lakes For the classroom portion of the Hage was particularly positive about Lifetouch externship, students interviewed their the placement itself. “The H.B. Fuller Medtronic placement supervisors about their legal team worked hard to ensure I had MoneyGram International careers, the roles of corporate counsel, a good experience. I truly appreciated NCS Pearson and the relationships between business how much effort they made to make Pentair and law. In another assignment, they the externship worthwhile.” Piper Jaffray Companies edited an existing corporate document according to the principles of plain The Law School will offer the program English drafting. again in the 2007 summer session.

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Interdisciplinary Lectures

Thursday, January 25, 2007 Wednesday, March 7, 2007 Lunch Series on the Societal Implications Lecture Series on Law, Health of the Life Sciences & the Life Sciences

SPEAKER Prof. David Relman, MD, SPEAKER Prof. Jose Ordovas, PhD, Tufts University Stanford University TITLE “Nutrigenomics: Science, Regulation, TITLE “Dual Use and National Security” and Policy” TIME 12:15pm–1:30pm TIME 11:30am–1:00pm THEATER Coffman Memorial Union THEATER St. Paul Student Center Co-sponsored by the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Co-sponsored by the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences and Joint Degree Program in Environment & the Life Sciences and Joint Degree Program in Law, Health & the Life Sciences Law, Health & the Life Sciences

Thursday, February 1, 2007 Thursday, April 12, 207 Deinard Memorial Lecture on Law Lunch Series on the Societal Implications & Medicine of the Life Sciences

SPEAKER Prof. Stephen J. Morse, JD, PhD, SPEAKER Scott Gottlieb, MD, U.S. Food and Drug University of Pennsylvania Administration TITLE "New Neuroscience, Old Legal Problems: TITLE “Science & Politics: FDA Perspective” The Case of Juvenile Responsibility" TIME 12:15pm–1:30pm TIME 11:30am–1:00pm THEATER Coffman Memorial Union THEATER Coffman Memorial Union Co-sponsored by the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Co-sponsored by the Joint Degree Program in Law, Health & Environment & the Life Sciences and Joint Degree Program in the Life Sciences and the Center for Bioethics Law, Health & the Life Sciences

Wednesday, February 7, 2007 Tuesday, May 1, 2007 Lecture Series on Law, Health Annual Symposium & the Life Sciences TITLE “Managing Incidental Findings in Human SPEAKER Prof. David Castle, PhD, University of Ottawa Subjects Research: From Imaging to Genomics” TITLE “Genomic Nutritional Profiling: The Ethics of Nutrigenomics” TIME 8:00am–5:00pm TIME 11:30am–1:00pm THEATER Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center THEATER St. Paul Student Center Sponsored by the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Co-sponsored by the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences with support from a grant Environment & the Life Sciences and Joint Degree Program in from the National Institutes of Health, National Human Law, Health & the Life Sciences Genome Research Institute, #1R01HG003178-01A1. Monday, February 26, 2007 Annual Conference

TITLE “Creating Stem Cells by Research Cloning: Scientific, Ethical, Legal & Policy Challenges” TIME 8:00am–5:00pm THEATER Coffman Memorial Union Sponsored by the Consortium, Joint Degree Program, Academic Health Center, and Stem Cell Institute

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Congratulations Class of 2006

1. J.D. Class of 2006 7. Dean of Students Erin Keyes (’00), 2. Kurtis G. S. Parlin and Lisa Hird Chung Karla Vehrs, Elie Beyrouthy (LL.M. Class sang a rousing Hail Minnesota. Graduation Address), Al Vredeveld 3. LL.M. Class of 2006. (Most Outstanding Contribution to the 4. Karla Vehrs delivered the J.D. class Class of 2006), Tovah Flygare (Excellence graduation address. in Public Service Award), Nena Street 5. Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice (William B. Lockhart Award for Excellence 6 Russell A. Anderson (’68) offered com- in Scholarship, Leadership, and Service), mencement remarks to the graduating Kurtis G.S. Parlin, Lisa Hurd Chung. 5 classes. 8. Justice Anderson and Professor Emeritus 6. Commencement officials onstage. Donald Marshall.

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Student Perspective ❯ LAW BRIEF Dean Morrison and • 44% of students are Minnesota Megan Healy (’07) at the Law residents, 56% are nonresidents Review alumni reception • Student to faculty ratio is 13:1 • 258 first-year students - Selected from 3,147 who applied - LSAT median is 165 Minnesota Law Review staff

❯ - GPA average is 3.53

LAW BRIEF • Current enrollment is 850 students - 807 J.D. candidates - 18 international visiting students (6 countries represented) ❯ - 4 domestic visiting students 2007 LL.M. students Brian O’Leary, Katja Meitz, - 21 LL.M. students (13 Martin Hall, Bum Soon Kim, Teng Wei Wang, countries represented) and friends share a few moments around • 11 joint degree programs the fire at the Annual Fall Harvest Party. are offered

LAW BRIEF Approximately 175 students participate on one of the four student-edited journals each year.

Professor Matheson’s Section C Contracts class on Halloween ❯

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❯Student Profiles

Diversity Finds a Home at the Law School

WEI LI multinational corporation and moved to California. She attended CLASS OF 2007 observed, “Their way of thinking was graduate school; he couldn’t find a job. different.” Li says, “In China, we apply But counting greeting cards at one of the rule. We don’t challenge the rule. his many temporary gigs quickly But in common law countries, judges inspired him to write an inventory- can interpret the law.” tracking computer program and got him on the company payroll. Inspired to learn more about that tra- dition and further her skills, Li entered During the 1990s, he continued the Law School’s LL.M. program. She’s writing computer programs (e.g., a found the work challenging. navigation tool for Rand McNally called Street Finder) and playing in Wei Li with her son, Zimu. “In law school, you are doomed rock bands (e.g., Moss, Chica). By to suffer for three years,” Li says. 2000, he and his girlfriend were mar- s Wei Li studiously listened Fortunately, her LL.M. program lasts ried and had a son, a happy occasion Ato law professors at Shanghai’s just 12 months—long enough to expe- that soon turned to worry. Born with Fudan University in 1992, rience life in the United States but not an extra chromosome, Zane had symp- Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping was so long that she’ll miss seeing her son toms similar to Down’s syndrome, was pushing for economic reforms. That grow up. Zimu, born in 2005, is at deaf, and required six operations in his year’s party congress spoke of creating home in Shanghai with Li’s husband, first year of life. a “socialist market economy” by the an information technology engineer end of the decade. The timing of that for Microsoft China. Despite family healthcare coverage initiative turned out to be perfect through his employer, suburban San for Li, a woman with a passion for “I like Minnesota,” she says, “but I will Francisco-based Intuit, a mountain of corporate law. not stay here forever.” bills and insurance statements piled up. When Robinson finally got it sorted After graduating in 1996 with a bach- out, he discovered that more than elor’s degree in international economic DAN ROBINSON $100,000 toward the $1.2 million total law, she landed a job as a paralegal at a CLASS OF 2007 had not been paid by the insurer. “I Chinese firm. But Li was not satisfied had no idea something like that could with that career path and returned to possibly happen,” he says. He promptly college, earning a master’s degree in wrote a software program to manage comparative law in 2001. Simmons & the paperwork related to Zane’s Simmons, a British law firm, recog- healthcare. He eventually championed nized her talent and hired her as PRC the product at Intuit, and Quicken (People’s Republic of China) legal Medical Expenses Manager was intro- counsel at its Shanghai office. duced in 2005, a year after Robinson started law school. Working at one of the largest international law firms in the country, Li t took Dan Robinson six years He had considered law school for years, had plenty of opportunities to work Ito get his electrical engineering but the deciding factor was a legal fight on joint ventures between U.S. or degree from Rice University. with a California state agency over European firms and Chinese compa- Writing songs and playing guitar as a Zane’s healthcare. After studying the nies, cross-border mergers and acquisi- member of the ska/funk band Sprawl rules pertaining to children with dis- tions, and initial public offerings on during nationwide tours and recording abilities, he prepared a case and won an the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. She sessions might have had something to administrative hearing. At Minnesota, interacted with lawyers from several do with that. Robinson represented clients at the western nations at both Simmons & nonprofit Minnesota Disability Law Simmons and a subsequent job in After graduating in 1992, the Duluth, Center and served on the site council the legal affairs department of a Minnesota, native and his girlfriend of his son’s school in St. Paul.

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Just months away from completing law for a Democrat, Senator John Kerry, After graduation, says Kilgour, now 25, school, he has been hired by San among Muslim voters in Michigan. “My original plan was to study biology Francisco-based Heller Ehrman LLP to Next she worked at DC Vote, an in graduate school.” But the idea of work as a civil litigator. He’ll start there organization advocating congressional spending years in a laboratory wasn’t in 2008, after a year of clerking for representation for the District of appealing, especially with her interest U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Columbia, and the American Civil in legal issues. She spent a few months Phillips in Los Angeles. Liberties Union. at restaurant jobs before landing a position at the American Association “I wish law school were four years,” Now in her first year of law school, for the Advancement of Science in says 38-year-old Robinson. “There are Akbar spends the vast majority of her Washington, D.C. At about that time, hundreds of classes in the catalog and I time in class, studying, or sleeping. “I she took the LSAT and the GRE. only got to take 22 of them.” literally don’t have a life,” she says. But that’s OK. She recalls that the best When it came time to choose an writing she read as a graduate student educational path, the University of ZAINAB AKBAR was by law professors, and now she’s Minnesota’s joint degree program CLASS OF 2009 immersed in the same intellectual seemed like the perfect fit. With four pursuit. years of courses, Kilgour will earn a J.D. and a master’s degree in genetics When she graduates in 2009, Akbar and molecular biology. She’s in the plans to avoid the big firms. She sees second year of the program and has a national or local civil liberties or already found a way to combine the human rights advocacy organization specialties and to advocate for sharing as a better fit. scientific knowledge through her position as an intern at the Public Zainab Akbar (on left) with her In the meantime, she will study, Intellectual Property Resource for parents, brother and sister. organize MLSA events next spring, Agriculture (PIPRA). and perhaps relieve law school stress nti-Muslim fervor isn’t new by performing in the next produc- The University of California-based Ato Pakistani-American Zainab tion by TORT, the Theater of the initiative encourages universities and Akbar, who has rejuvenated the Relatively Talentless. She recently sang nonprofit research institutions to make University of Minnesota’s Muslim Law “Happy Birthday” at her audition. their agricultural technologies readily Students Association (MLSA). During “It’s the only song I know I can sing,” available so crops can be distributed the 1991 U.S. invasion of Iraq, kids she says. “for humanitarian purposes in the tossed racial slurs at her. The intermit- developing world.” Kilgour took the tent threats her parents (both physi- PIPRA message on the road in 2006 cians) had been receiving at their office LAUREL KILGOUR and conducted needs analysis at 14 increased after the 9/11 attacks. More CLASS OF 2009 sites in Vietnam. recently, the FBI and CIA questioned several relatives, simply because of their That trip and her PIPRA work Pakistani origins. “I’ve always been has made her passionate about pro sympathetic to people’s struggles,” bono intellectual property work. “It’s Akbar says. These experiences might, definitely influenced the way I look at at least partially, explain why. my career,” she says. She believes that big firms and intellectual property As a student at Johns Hopkins boutiques should better share their University, she majored in anthro- Laurel Kilgour visiting a research knowledge. To that end, Kilgour co- pology, with a focus on South Asian institution in Ha Tay, Vietnam. founded the Health Law and Bioethics studies. After graduation in 2002, she Association, a student group focusing jumped into the politics of her home s an undergraduate student on practical career guidance related state of Michigan, organizing Muslim Aat Amherst College, Laurel to health law and bioethics. The group voters for Democratic gubernatorial Kilgour majored in biology. plans to sponsor a panel on public candidate David Bonior. He lost. But one term she took a property interest and pro bono intellectual law class, and it sent her life in a new property issues in the spring. Kilgour Akbar moved on to graduate school, direction. She studied the Canadian hopes that one day the University of earning a master’s degree in political case of Monsanto v. Schmeiser, in which Minnesota will join the PIPRA effort. theory from the London School of patented canola seed was blown from Economics. That program ended in an experimental plot onto a farmer’s By Todd Melby, a Minneapolis-based freelance September 2004, giving her just adjoining land. He grew and harvested writer and independent radio producer. enough time to get in on that year’s the crop, and the seed company presidential race. Again, she stumped wanted compensation.

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Raise the Bar Cleans Up

This past September, the group Raise the Bar sponsored its second Day of Service, and more than 120 students, staff, and faculty volunteered on a variety of projects throughout the Twin Cities. Raise the Bar was founded in January 2006 Josh Jones (’09) to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr., and his legacy. Co-founders Sarah Corris (class of 2008) and Jane Gazman (class of 2007) believe that our responsibility as lawyers includes being involved in our community through volun- teerism and advocacy and hope that creating a Day of Service for the law school community will foster that belief.

After an overwhelming response to the first Day of Service last January, Raise the Bar officers decided to organize a service day each semester, with special emphasis on Martin Luther King for the January event. In the future, Raise the Bar hopes to invite local alumni to participate in this worthwhile and rewarding service experience. This year’s officers are co-chairs Lauren Baird (class of 2008), Betsy Flanagan (class of 2008), and Sarah Corris; treasurer Leaf McGregor (class of 2008); and officers Jane Gazman, and Angie Munoz (class of 2008).

The 2007 Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service will take place on January 27. For more information, contact Betsy Flanagan Cyrus Jamnejad (’09), Meggie Choi (’09), ([email protected]) or Lauren Baird ([email protected]). Yeerik Moy (’09), and Scott Brown (’09)

Joanie Simon (’09), Jenny Huang (’08), Jeff Mulder (’08), Tiffanea Trice (’08), and Professor Carol Chomsky

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LAW BRIEF

In addition to their leadership roles in the Bar, private legal practice, government service, and business, more than 75 of our alumni currently serve on law faculties around the country (and countless others contribute to the education

of the next generation of lawyers as adjunct faculty). ❯

Michael Zalk (’82), Kathleen Austin (’03), and Divya Raman (’05), at the 2006 Career Options Night hosted by the Career and Professional Development LAW BRIEF Center. The Law School has over 11,600 living alumni. Outside of Minnesota, the 8 most popular states for alumni (as measured by number of alumni in each state) are: ❯ • California • Wisconsin • Illinois • New York Rebecca Bernhard (’03), Rachel Hughey (’03), and Professor Mary Patricia Byrn (’03) (with back to the • Texas • Florida LAW BRIEF • Arizona • Virginia camera), at the Law Review Alumni Reception. More than 170 alumni are currently living and working

❯ outside of the United States. Professor Myron Orfield, Michael Freeman (’74), and Patrick Diamond (’86), at the Heaney Reception. Associate Dean Meredith McQuaid (’91), James Rustad (’67), Dr. Kay Thomas, Cheryl Heilman (’81), and the Honorable Joan and Regent Dr. Patricia S. Simmons Ericksen (’81), at the Heaney Reception. at the opening of the Hedin Alcove. ❯ ❯

LAW BRIEF More than 250 alumni currently serve as federal or state judges nationwide. 19.1% of the Class of 2005 began their legal careers as judicial clerks.

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❯Distinguished Alumni Profiles

DEENA BENNETT Kaitlyn’s law, a child-protection measure www.un.org/icty). In his first months CLASS OF 1992 the state passed after Kaitlyn’s death. on the job, Docherty says he is still finding his way around. “It is fasci- his November, Deena Bennett The Survivor experience also brought nating, exciting, and I am delighted Tembarked on the largest prelimi- Bennett, voted off ninth, role-model to be here. I have a lot to learn.” nary hearing in Riverside-San status. In a test of endurance against Bernardino history as she began steps temptation, two of the women removed Docherty was born in Glasgow, toward group prosecution of 15 gang their clothes for peanut butter and choc- Scotland. His family moved to Canada members for a shoot-out that left two olate. Bennett did not. When she got and then Minnesota when he was still dead. A deputy district attorney in home, she was surprised by the impact young. After graduating from law Riverside County, Calif., Bennett has of her actions on young girls. She says school, he worked for the U.S. worked numerous horrific and tragic it’s one reason she’s invited to schools: Department of Justice’s Antitrust cases, from clergy sex abuse to the to tell kids it’s OK to be true to your- Division. He spent 10 years with the death of 6-month-old Kaitlyn Russell self and not give in to others’ wishes. Minnesota Attorney General’s Office after being accidentally left in a hot van. prosecuting narcotics and homicide Bennett knows the importance of role cases and more than four years with models. In fourth grade, her class vis- the Office of the U.S. Attorney. ited Orange County Superior Court. She was so impressed by the presiding No single case stands out as most sig- woman judge that she decided she nificant for Docherty. “Whatever case I wanted to be a judge. It remains a was working on, I took the attitude dream, but she hasn’t run…yet. “I’m that it was the most important thing I not even 40,” Bennett says. “There’s a had ever done or would ever do, and lot more that I have to do at the DA’s that attitude has served me well,” he office before I could consider it.” says. “I am going to stick to it.”

The Security Council has said it wants to complete all Tribunal trials by 2008 JOHN DOCHERTY and appeals by 2010, Docherty says. DEENA BENNETT CLASS OF 1986 “The cases I hope to be a part of are extraordinarily serious crimes and s an Assistant U.S. Attorney something very different from anything Bennett clerked for the district Ain Minnesota, John Docherty I would ever do back home.” attorney’s office during law school successfully prosecuted breaks and worked her way up to the Minneapolis City Council member homicide unit. The work affects each Gary Dean Zimmermann for taking person differently, says Riverside’s 2005 bribes and Zomax chairman and CEO WILBUR FLUEGEL Felony Prosecutor of the Year. “I can James T. Anderson for insider trading CLASS OF 1979 tell you it does nothing but fuel my involving more than $6 million in fire, passion, and drive to ensure that company stock. il Fluegel has chaired the justice is done. I am not effective if I WLaw School for Legislators lose control emotionally.” This fall Docherty, his wife Marilyn each biennium since its 2001 Conklin (class of 1995), and their two inception. House and Senate party It’s not all about work. She coaches her young children moved to the leaders identify an emerging issue, such 8- and 5-year-old sons’ soccer teams Netherlands, where he is taking on a as family law reform, and Fluegel and recently began training for next new challenge as a prosecuting trial moderates a one- or two-day crash April’s Ironman Arizona triathlon. attorney for the International Criminal course for lawmakers. He also asks leg- Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. islators to consider how new laws will In 2003, she competed on CBS’s The United Nations Security Council affect the courts. “Survivor Amazon,” and the resulting created the Tribunal in part to prose- celebrity status has given her opportu- cute Geneva Convention violations, “If you are going to ask the judiciary nities to promote the “unattended genocide, and crimes against humanity to take on a new area and you haven’t child in motor vehicle act,” called (for more information, go to budgeted for new judges or support staff, that can pose challenges,” he says. Perspectives WINTER 2007 41 Alumni Perspective

Fluegel grew up in Mankato, the son track, and she says Matheson “inspired of an auto mechanic and a teacher me that you can do both.” Today she is who valued education, he says. He Associate Corporate Counsel on the knew by ninth grade he wanted to be litigation team for Best Buy. She also a trial attorney: “I grew up on Perry volunteers long hours at the Islamic Mason.” He focused on transactional Center of Minnesota. law during law school and then clerked for Third District Chief Justice After graduating, Mahmud worked for Russell Olson and Judge Daniel Foley. State Senator Satveer Chaudhary (class “That confirmed that my childhood of 1995) and then as an associate at a ambition of being a trial lawyer was law firm in downtown Minneapolis. something I not only had an interest in Just before starting at Best Buy in but probably the skill to accomplish,” 2005, she traveled to her native Lahore, WIL FLUEGEL he says. Pakistan, to help earthquake victims. It fulfilled promises she made in her col- He began practice with the forerunner lege entrance essays to help those less In the annual poll sponsored by to Sieben, Grose & Von Holtum, then fortunate, she says. She and family Minnesota Law & Politics, his peers opened his own firm in 1992. He and members helped where they saw need. voted Fluegel Minnesota’s top Super his wife, Kathy (Baumann) Fluegel Lawyer in 2006. A personal injury (class of 1980), have a teenaged attorney, he has handled approximately daughter. 50 trials and 300 appeals, from product liability to automobile accident cases, and he has helped shape the state’s legal landscape. SUMBAL MAHMUD CLASS OF 2003 During his tenure on the board of the Minnesota Trial Lawyers Association umbal Mahmud recalls going (1993-2005), including one year as Sinto Prof. John Matheson’s office president, the group lobbied to extend ready to quit law school and the medical malpractice statute of limi- saying half jokingly that she was going tations and broaden compensation for to be a wedding planner. She still people injured through government laughs at his reply: “Sumbal, you’re no negligence. He also served on the J. Lo.” Minnesota Campaign Finance and SUMBAL MAHMUD WITH CHILDREN FROM Public Disclosure Board (1998-2005), Mahmud felt torn between public one year as chair. service work and the corporate law A VILLAGE IN PAKISTAN.

Alumni Reception in Los Angeles

John Swenson (’67) and Kirk Patrick (’74), graciously hosted a reception for Law School alumni on November 14 in Los Angeles.

Pictured from left to right: Harry Lipmann (’68), James Ginsburg (’68), Dean Guy-Uriel Charles, Swenson, and Maura O'Connor (’88).

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“I bought tents and blankets, but my have been complaining for decades role there was to listen,” says Mahmud, that a black man can’t get a fair trial who speaks Urdu and understands in America,” he says. “Nowadays, Arabs Punjabi. “People wanted other people, and Muslims are walking around like, especially in the United States, to ‘We can’t even get a trial in America.’” know what was going on.” Usman, a Muslim, co-founded “Allah Mahmud has taught Islamic history Made Me Funny: The Official Muslim at the Islamic Center since 1995 and Comedy Tour,” which has taken him been a board member since 2003. As across the United States and to Europe communication director, she speaks and Australia. He has appeared on to church groups several times a week ABC’s “Nightline” and National Public about Islam, and she handles media Radio and received numerous news- calls on hot political issues, giving paper write-ups (see www.azhar.com). her community a voice. “Many of my Less noticed, he also helped found the community members are afraid to Nawawi Foundation, a nonprofit group speak,” she says. “Their actions are working to reconcile tensions between often misjudged. If they are anti- Islam and the modern world through AZHAR USMAN war, that somehow means they are religious scholarship. unpatriotic.” Born in Chicago, Usman and his wife become so popular, he closed his prac- Mahmud also is president-elect of the met as kids. They have two children, tice to do comedy full time. National Asian Pacific American Bar ages 2 and 4, and expect a third soon. Association’s Minnesota chapter. “I Usman’s parents emigrated from India. Usman wants laughs; he also wants hope I am giving justice to both my He traces his comedic influences to to promote tolerance. He wants to legal career and humanitarian work,” Bill Cosby, Jerry Seinfeld, and his remind Main Street America that he she says. “They drive each other.” father’s Indian comedy albums. is American, too, he says, and that this nation of immigrants has accommo- He started law school at 20, the dated a wide range of people. He also youngest in his class. “I was still figuring wants to remind fellow Muslims that AZHAR USMAN out what I wanted to do,” he recalls. Islam has adapted to many different CLASS OF 1999 After graduating, he started Xolia, an cultures and countries. “Why shouldn’t Internet business to help people choose Islam in America be American?” he sked for a joke, lawyer- online brokers. He sold during the dot- asks. turned-comedian Azhar Usman com crash and started a solo law prac- A By Scott Russell, a Minneapolis-based freelance pauses briefly to think of one tice, doing mostly transactional work. for a lawyerly audience: “Black people By 2004, his part-time standup act had writer.

Alumni Reception in Hawaii

On August 4, the Law School hosted a reception for local and visiting alumni and friends at the American Bar Association annual meeting in Hawaii.

Pictured at top from left to right: Dean Guy-Uriel Charles, James Kamo (’48), and Roy Kawamoto (’65)

Pictured at bottom from left to right: Judge M. Gay Conklin (’72), James Rodin (’73), and Amy Standefer (’00)

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❯ Alumni Spotlight

Joseph T. O’Neill Outstanding Achievement Award Recipient

The Law School hosted a vibrant celebration in honor of Joseph T. O’Neill (class of 1956) on April 27, 2006. The occasion was his receipt of the University of Minnesota Outstanding Achievement Award, the highest honor bestowed by the University on alumni. The Law School nominated O’Neill for his public service as a practicing lawyer, a Minnesota State 1 Representative and Senator, and board member of the St. Paul Area Chamber of Commerce, St. Joseph’s Hospital, and St. Paul Civic Center Authority.

nown by many as “Mr. St. Paul,” Joseph T. O’Neill is a respected community leader who has championed the Kcause of public education and the University of Minnesota over the decades. An overflow crowd attended the reception in his honor at the University Club of St. Paul. Remarks and recognition were offered by University of Minnesota Regent Dr. Patricia S. Simmons, former Law School Dean Alex M. Johnson, Jr., Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis Harry J. Flynn, State Senator Cal Larson, Executive Director of Southern Minnesota Regional Legal 2 Services Bruce Beneke (class of 1969), Judge John Connelly, and Law School Associate Dean Joan Howland.

O’Neill concluded the program with gracious remarks attributing his achievements and successes to the dedicated efforts of others who have worked with him on the same causes.

By Sara Jones (’88), Assistant Director of Development

1. Auxillary Bishop Richard Pates and Joe O’Neill 2. University of Minnesota Regent Dr. Patricia S. Simmons and former Dean Alex M. Johnson, Jr., with Joe O’Neill 3. Warren (’63) and Marjorie Spannaus with Joe O’Neill 3

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Grads Gather at the New Guthrie More than 100 graduates from the classes of 1996 through 2006 attended the Recent Graduates Happy Hour on November 9, 2006, in the Target Lounge of the newly opened Guthrie Theater. The event, hosted by the Office of Alumni Relations, was scheduled to last two hours, but alumni were still catching up with old classmates, exchanging business cards, and enjoying hors d’oeuvres and drinks well after the 7 pm last call.

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Defense Lawyers Association President’s Award in appreciation for his many contributions and years of service. He is a partner at Thibodeau, Johnson & Class Notes Feriancek in Duluth, Minn. Send us your news 1968 Joan Heim has become a deputy assistant director Tell us about the important things that happen in your life! We welcome submissions for at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of inclusion in the Class Notes section of Perspectives. Submit your news through our Web Competition. Her division investigates proposed site at www.law.umn.edu/alumni/submit.html. transactions on mergers in the food and retail sec- You can also send your update to Scotty Mann via e-mail at [email protected], regular tors of the economy and recommends law enforce- mail at N160 Walter F. Mondale Hall, 229 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55455, or fax at ment action when appropriate. (612) 626-2002. We need your submissions by March 20, 2007, for inclusion in the next issue. Anyone interested in serving as a Class Reporter please contact Scotty Mann.

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1936 matters, by joining Larkin Hoffman Daly & Lindgren Ltd. as Of Counsel. James Schwebel, founding Myer Shark is still practicing law—working pro bono partner and President of through the Volunteer Lawyers Network to develop 1962 Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben PA, compromises with the utility companies so low- was named a top 100 Minnesota 2006 Super income clients who are behind in payments continue Jack McGirl retired from Leonard, Street and Lawyer by Minnesota Law & Politics. He was also to receive heat and power. “I am 93,” Shark says, “and Deinard on December 31, at the age of 71 and after inducted as a Fellow of the International Society of I realize the time is short. But I am not sitting around more than 44 years of law practice. He will be Barristers at its annual meeting in Scottsdale, Ariz. waiting for the call. I will continue to work on this spending more time in the warmer climate of [the power company tax issue] as long as I am able.” Arizona. 1971

1941 1965 Judge Gary Krump is now Vice President and Director of Federal Marketing for The Rhoads Group Judge Gerald Heaney has retired from the U.S. in Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. After a life spent in public service, his ambition today is to help 1973 young people accomplish their own goals. On June 29, the city of Duluth honored Heaney with induc- Richard Bowman was William Klumpp, a Minnesota assistant attorney tion into the Duluth Hall of Fame for his volunteer named a top 100 Minnesota general for 20 years, was named an Attorney of the efforts with the University of Minnesota Duluth, 2006 Super Lawyer by Year by the editors of Minnesota Lawyer. He was rec- WDSE-TV, and the Duluth Seaway Port Authority. Minnesota Law & Politics. With more than 40 years ognized for his role in the successful prosecution of a (See page 31.) of trial experience, he is Firm Managing Partner of Ricori High School student for a school shooting that Bowman and Brooke LLP, working largely in cata- took the lives of two fellow students. Howard Kohn has moved to Florissant, Mo. strophic loss and product liability, and has first- chaired cases in more than 30 states. William Mauzy has joined Robins, Kaplan, Miller & 1951 Ciresi LLP as a partner to bolster its white-collar Rolf Nelson was elected President of the National defense practice. Additional focuses are antitrust Justice John Simonett was honored with the Elder Law Foundation, the only elder law certifing and trade regulation, financial litigation, business Fidelis Apparitor Award (“faithful servant” in Latin) agency approved by the American Bar Association. trial and litigation, and crisis management for cor- at the Red Mass at St. Benedict’s Monastery, College Minnesota’s first elder law specialist, he is a partner porate directors and officers. of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, Minn. The award is given at Estate Crafters, Brooklyn Center, Minn. to individuals who have demonstrated the virtues of 1974 exemplary service, outstanding competence and 1966 leadership, and adherence to the directive in the Rule of Benedict that no one is to pursue what is Robert Alfton participated in Terrorism and the judged better for oneself, but instead, what is Rule of Law, an international conference sponsored judged better for someone else. by the World Jurist Association, in Edinburgh, Scotland, in May. Joseph Goldberg was 1960 elected to the positions of 1967 Insurance Vice President and Melvin Burstein continues his more than 40 member of the Board of Directors of the years of legal experience, principally in commercial Tom Thibodeau received the 2006 Minnesota International Association of Defense Counsel at its

46 Perspectives WINTER 2007 Alumni Perspective annual meeting in Rome in July. He is Assistant Lois Helms recently graduated from Lutheran General Counsel-Director of Legal Services at Sentry Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, S.C., Insurance in Stevens Point, Wis., and was previously with a Master of Divinity degree. She was commis- in private practice in Minneapolis with Miller & sioned as a pastor in the United Methodist Church in Neary, and following its merger, with Mahoney, June and serves as the pastor of three churches near Dougherty & Mahoney PA. Peter Riley, a shareholder at Walterboro, in the coastal area of South Carolina. Schwebel, Goetz & Sieben PA, Douglas Gregor was awarded the Minnesota State was named a top 100 Dave Huey works for the Consumer Protection Bar Association 2006 Public Attorney Award of Minnesota 2006 Super Lawyer by Minnesota Law & Division in the Attorney General’s Office in Tacoma, Excellence: Public Law Office/Civil Law. The award is Politics. Recently, he was selected for the Wash. He recently received the prestigious Marvin given annually to an attorney who has shown dedi- Woodward/White directory, The Best Lawyers in Award from the National Association of Attorneys cation and commitment to public service and the America, in the area of plaintiff personal injury. Riley General for his work on consumer protection issues, public practice of law or has made significant contri- has extensive experience in complex civil litigation, including nationwide settlements with two sub- butions to the operation of government or the prac- including personal injury, medical malpractice, and prime mortgage lenders. tice of law. Gregor works at the Minnesota Attorney product liability. General’s Office. 1981 Thomas J. Shroyer, President and CEO of Moss & Jim Wieland has been named an Outstanding Barnett PA, was re-elected Chair of the Board of Carol Berg O’Toole has been appointed an Physician Practice Lawyer for 2006 by Nightingale’s Trustees of Courage Center Foundation, Golden arbitrator on the Public Employment Relations Healthcare News, one of only 10 attorneys chosen Valley, Minn. Board by the Commissioner of the Bureau of nationwide for the latest annual listing. He is a prin- Mediation Services for the State of Minnesota, cipal in the Health Law Group of Ober, Kaler, Grimes James Strother is Executive Vice President and James P. Cunningham Jr. She joins a roster of 43 & Shriver in Baltimore, Md., and works with physi- General Counsel at Wells Fargo & Company in San arbitrators who will act as neutrals in impasse situa- cians on such collaborative transactions as net- Francisco. tions and disputes between employees and works, mergers, and joint ventures. employers. She will also continue as instructor at 1978 the Industrial Relations Center at the University of 1975 Minnesota, assistant professor at St. Mary’s University, and adjunct professor at Capella J. Michael Dady and the staff of Dady & Garner PA University, Minneapolis. celebrated the firm’s tenth anniversary by attending the dedication of their Habitat for Humanity project, Judge Michael Savre was appointed to the First completed in April. The ten lawyers and ten sup- Diane (Hollern) Rapaport, Judicial District Domestic Violence Coordinating port-staff members, together with volunteer stu- formerly a trial lawyer in Council. dents from the Twin Cities Campus Chapters, started Minneapolis and Boston, has construction of the home in Heritage Park, north a new career as a writer and frequent lecturer for Minneapolis, in October 2005. Dady regards the historical and genealogical programs. Her column firm’s house sponsorship as a call to action for other for New England Ancestors magazine, “Tales from small companies, noting “if you are committed to the Courthouse,” brings colonial legal history to life making a difference, anything is possible.” and has twice received the Excellence in Writing Award from the International Society of Family Ronald Schutz, a partner at Tom Heffelfinger, former U.S. attorney for History Writers and Editors. Her first book, New Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi Minnesota, has returned to private law practice England Court Records: A Research Guide for LLP, has been elected with Best & Flanagan, Minneapolis, where he was Genealogists and Historians, was published in 2006. chairman of the Board of Directors of the Center of formerly a partner. the American Experiment. The nonpartisan think tank is dedicated to advancing conservative and free 1977 1979 market ideas and solutions to provide the tools needed to tackle the important issues facing Grant Aldonas has started a new venture—Split Minnesota and the nation. Rock International, located in the Washington, DC, area. The international consulting and investment Mark Sellner joined the full-time faculty at the firm helps corporations and government entities University of Minnesota Carlson School of Judge Pamela Alexander successfully navigate amid globalization. Management in the Master of Business Taxation was recognized in May with Program. He was previously a tax partner at the 2006 Communication and Gregory Bulinski is a trial lawyer for Bassford LarsonAllen in Minneapolis. Leadership Award from Toastmasters International, Remele, Minneapolis, handling matters in all areas which goes to an individual who has provided out- of civil and business litigation. He serves as presi- Michael Unger has been selected to serve as the standing service to the community through com- dent emeritus for the Minnesota Defense Lawyers 88th president of the Hennepin County Bar munication and leadership. Association and received an Exceptional Association, the ninth largest local bar association in Performance Award from DRI—The Voice of the the country at 8,000 members. His term of office is Defense Bar, Chicago. from July 2006 through June 2007.

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1982 overall operations, and business and legal affairs of formerly articles editor of the Law School’s Law & the division. Baker is also responsible for supervising Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice. Sally Stolen Grossman has joined the Financial creative development, the videogame green- and Estate Planning practice group of Gray Plant lighting process, and the company’s game pub- Michael Piazza has joined Dorsey & Whitney LLP Mooty. She assists individuals and families with lishing plan. as a partner in the firm’s Southern California office. estate planning, business succession planning, Most recently regional trial counsel for the Los estate and trust administration, and charitable John Bodick is serving as chief legal counsel for the Angeles office of the Securities and Exchange planning. Alaska Department of Corrections. Commission, he will specialize in securities litigation as well as other commercial and intellectual prop- 1983 Victor Lund has been re-elected for a two-year erty litigation matters. term on the Board of Directors for the Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association. He practices at 1988 Mahoney, Dougherty & Mahoney PA, Minneapolis. Thomas Atmore is a shareholder in Leonard, Doug Meslow has been appointed by Governor Tim O’Brien, Spencer, Gale & Sayre Ltd., practicing pri- Pawlenty to serve as a judge in Minnesota’s Tenth marily in the areas of arbitration (including interna- Shirley Lerner has been Judicial District. tional), personal injury, product liability, appellate named a top 100 Minnesota practice, and commercial litigation. 2006 Super Lawyer by Ann Seha, formerly Assistant Commissioner of the Minnesota Law & Politics. Also recently designated a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, has joined Mary Bernard, formerly a partner at King & managing partner for the Minneapolis office of Dorsey & Whitney’s Minneapolis office as Of Counsel Spalding LLP, has been named Global General Bowman and Brooke LLP, she represents businesses in the Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Counsel for Investment Banking at Credit Suisse in employment law with claims involving age dis- Group. Experienced in air and energy law and policy, Securities (USA) LLC. She is responsible for providing crimination, sexual harassment, breach of employ- Seha will represent clients in environmental and legal advice to Credit Suisse First Boston’s Invest- ment contracts, and competition and confidentiality utility regulatory matters. ment Banking Division regarding its investment violations. banking transactions and client relationships globally. 1985 Calvin Litsey, an intellectual property lawyer and Kathy DiGiorno is the Vice President & Business adjunct professor at the Law School, will be filling Michael McKenna, a colonel in the Wisconsin Conduct Officer for Medtronic. the vacant seat on the Minnetonka, Minn., school Army National Guard, recently recieved the Bronze board. Star Medal for his service in Iraq. He is the Sheryl Morrison has joined the Financial and Corporation Counsel for Portage County, Wis. Estate Planning practice group of Gray Plant Mooty. She focuses on the areas of estate and wealth plan- 1986 ning, transfer tax strategies, business succession planning, estate and trust administration, charitable John Docherty has joined the Office of the trusts and nonprofit organizations, guardianships, Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for and conservatorships. Mary Vasaly has been the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. named president of (See profile on page 41.) Jay Quam of Fredrikson & Byron PA has been Minnesota Women Lawyers, appointed by Governor Tim Pawlenty to serve after serving as president-elect for the past year. 1987 as a judge in Minnesota’s Fourth Judicial District. She is a partner at Maslon Edelman Borman & Formerly a Hennepin County Conciliation Court Brand LLP, where she has practiced in the areas of Timothy Dordell has been named deputy general Judge, he teaches trial advocacy at the University appeals, probate/trust litigation, and commercial counsel at the Toro Company. of St. Thomas School of Law and is an attorney litigation for more than 20 years. Vasaly has coach for the Mounds View High School mock appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court and has Jenae (Bunyak) Naumann has been elected to a trial team. tried cases and argued appeals in state and federal three-year term on the Government and Public courts in Minnesota and other states. She was Sector Lawyers Division Council of the American Bar 1990 recently inducted into the American Academy of Association. She is chair for the 2006-2007 term of Appellate Lawyers. the E-commerce and Technology Section of the Wayne Anderson serves as the Examiner of Titles State Bar of Arizona, and at its annual convention in for Ramsey County. Joyce Yetter has moved back to Minneapolis. June, she received the President’s Award for her work surveying and documenting the employment Jim Harries has joined Parsinen, Kaplan, 1984 of women and minority attorneys in Arizona law Rosberg & Gotlieb PA, Minneapolis, as a partner. firms. She recently completed a seven-year He advises and counsels owners of small and mid- Debra Baker has been promoted to Senior Vice appointed term on the state bar’s Committee on sized businesses. President, Operations, for Warner Brothers Minorities and Women in the Law. An assistant city Interactive Entertainment in Burbank, Calif. She attorney for Tempe, Ariz., Naumann handles Joan Humes recently concluded 12 years as an heads multiple departments that collectively telecommunications, software licensing, Internet Assistant U.S. Attorney for Minnesota to work in liti- oversee the execution of marketing initiatives, issues, and intellectual property matters. She was gation management for Ovations, a division of

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UnitedHealth Group that provides health programs 1994 Nancy Newark was named a partner at Burns & for people 50 and over. Levinson LLP. She represents both employers and Peter Dardi opened a new law firm, Dardi & employees in all aspects of the employment rela- Josh Wirtshafter works for the Environmental Associates PLLC, in Minneapolis. tionship and litigation process. She works with Protection Agency in Berkeley, Calif. clients ranging in size from family-owned busi- Pacyinz Lyfoung has joined Midwest nesses and entrepreneurial ventures to large non- 1991 Environmental Advocates as the managing director. profit charitable organizations and national corporations. Michael Johnson has joined the Minneapolis office 1995 of Dorsey & Whitney LLP as a partner in the corpo- Michael Pape has joined Fish & Richardson PC in rate practice group. He will focus on mergers and Satveer Chaudhary, the first Indian-American the Minneapolis office as an associate in the litiga- acquisitions of private and public companies, member of the Minnesota legislature and the fourth tion group. He focuses on intellectual property liti- including insurance companies. Asian-Indian elected to any U.S. state legislature, gation, has authored several publications, and was won re-election to the Minnesota State Senate. He named a Rising Star in Minnesota Law & Politics in Peter Richardson has joined the Law Department serves on nine committees and subcommittees, has December 2005. of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company been a strong champion of preserving Minnesota’s as Assistant General Counsel on the Products and natural resources, and hopes to continue his efforts Robin Preble has joined Target Corp. as senior Distribution Team. to ensure adequate law enforcement tools to pro- counsel in litigation. tect against identity theft and cyber crime. Stephanie Derby Sundlof has joined Phelps Rachna Sullivan has joined the litigation depart- Dodge Corp. in its Phoenix corporate headquarters Ann E. Gabrielson works for the U.S. Department ment of Fredrikson & Byron PA. She focuses on gen- as Senior Counsel for Employee Benefits. Previously, of State in Dulles, Virginia. eral commercial litigation and has experience with she was a partner and chair of the ERISA (Employee breach of contracts, wind energy litigation, and Retirement Income Security Act) practice at Daniel C. Hedlund is a partner at Gustafson Gluek other general business disputes. Jennings, Strouss & Salmon PLC. PLLC. Amy Swedberg was elected a partner in Maslon 1992 Edelman Borman & Brand’s Financial Services Group. She focuses primarily on representing banks, inden- Patricia Beety is on the Board of Directors for the ture trustees, and commercial creditors in default Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association. She cur- situations. rently works for League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust in St. Paul. Tim Mangan is an associate 1997 attorney at Dinsmore & Shohl Kimberly Hewitt Boyd has been named Assistant LLP in Cincinnati. He has been Sascha Von Mende Henry was made a partner at Dean of Students and Multicultural Affairs at appointed to the board of the Friends of the School Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hamilton LLP in Los Hamline University School of Law. for the Creative and Performing Arts, a nonprofit Angeles and is a member of the business trial prac- organization that provides additional staffing, spe- tice group. She specializes in complex business liti- Tona Dove started Paideia Academy, a charter cial awards, technical support, and financial support gation and has experience representing businesses school that opened in Apple Valley, Minn., this fall. to the school. in a variety of disputes, including class actions. She is currently acting as School Board Chair and Startup Coordinator. 1996 David Jaffe has taken up his family business at Cinderella Inc., a distributor of swimming pools, Jay Larry accepted an associate position with Johanna Bond has been appointed Associate spas, chemicals, and related goods in Michigan, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New Professor of Law and Director of the Externship Ohio, and Indiana. York City. His focus is corporate restructuring. Program at the University of Wyoming. Roshini Rajkumar has returned to the Twin Cities 1993 Margie Enquist is a District Court Judge for the to start her own company, Roshini MultiMedia. She First Judicial District of the State of Colorado. works as a media consultant and presentation coach Daniel Pollmann is General Counsel at Liberty for attorneys, business people, and candidates and Point Corp. in Scottsdale, Ariz. Neil Kliebenstein was named a partner at is also a talk radio host and commercial talent. She Bowman and Brooke LLP of San Jose, Calif. He was previously a news reporter at the NBC affiliate Lisa Stratton has joined the clinical faculty at the focuses on defending automobile manufacturers in Detroit. Law School for 2006-2007 as a visiting associate and material handling equipment manufacturers clinical professor. She will teach the Workers’ Rights against products liability claims. 1998 Clinic both semesters, and in the spring she will teach a section on interviewing, counseling, and Doug Nemec was named a partner at Thomas Beimers is a senior associate in negotiating. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Ropes & Gray’s litigation department in Washington, their New York office and focuses on intellectual DC, focusing on media-related matters, American- property. Indian law, complex commercial disputes, and appellate litigation. He recently received the

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Deborah Levi Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Cameron Seybolt has been elected a shareholder Service for his role in securing a $9 million payout in the trusts and estates practice group of Fredrikson by Riggs Bank on behalf of more than 30,000 & Byron PA. He assists clients with income and victims of Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean transfer tax planning, family partnerships and dictator. business succession, charitable giving, trust Rebecca Simoni has been administration, and related matters and prepares promoted to shareholder of Kristine Dunn was named a partner at Skadden, wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, premarital von Briesen & Roper SC in Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in their Los agreements, corporate buy-sell agreements, and Milwaukee and is a member of the banking, bank- Angeles office and focuses on banking and other estate and business planning documents. ruptcy and business restructuring practice group institutional investing. Seybolt lives in Wayzata, Minn., with his wife and the legal and professional responsibility section. and four children. Simoni advises corporations, financial institutions and individual clients in federal, bankruptcy, and James Woodward recently relocated to state court matters. She is a frequent lecturer on Minneapolis from Chicago and works in the legal matters of bankruptcy and state and federal litigation. department at Fair Isaac Corp., handling licensing and technology agreements. Azhar Usman is co-founder of “Allah Made Me Michelle Bergholz Frazier Funny: The Official Muslim Comedy Tour.” A devout has moved back from Great 1999 Muslim and a stand-up comedian who has taken his Britain and rejoined von unique act around the world, he is a member of the Briesen & Roper SC as a principal associate in the Michael Dolan has joined U.S. Bancorp as Deputy small fraternity of American Muslim comics. He has healthcare practice group. She advises clients on Director of Enterprise Risk Management. He previ- been featured on ABC’s “Nightline,” in the New York general health law and regulatory matters, ously worked with Judge Bruce D. Willis of the Times, and in many other media outlets. (See profile including certification and licensure, Medicare and Minnesota Court of Appeals and with Oppenheimer on page 43.) Medicaid compliance, patient care, medical staff, Wolff & Donnelly LLP. He has served as an adjunct and healthcare contracting issues. professor with the Law School and is currently a 2000 member of Minnesota’s State Central Committee for Alison Frye has moved to Brattleboro, Vt. a major political party. Susan MacMenamin has joined Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson PA as an associate in the commer- Ingrid (Blau) Hallett has accepted a corporate Robin Caneff Gipson is a shareholder and a cial litigation group. She has a strong background in counsel position in the Private Client/Trust/Asset member of Briggs and Morgan PA’s trade regulation antitrust and consumer fraud class action law. Management division of the legal department of section. She concentrates her practice in business U.S. Bank. litigation, franchise and distribution law, antitrust Anna Nelson has opened an intellectual property law, and covenants not to compete. law firm, Campbell Nelson Whipps LLC, in St. Paul Jason Lien, a litigation attorney practicing com- with Keith Campbell (class of 2003). Their practice mercial litigation and real estate at Maslon Edelman Ryan Johnson has been elected a shareholder in is currently focused on patent matters in the chem- Borman & Brand in Minneapolis, married Emerald Fredrikson & Byron PA and is a member of its corpo- ical and biotechnology fields. Gratz (class of 2005) on January 7, 2006, at the Hill rate, health law, and advertising, media & enter- Reference Library in downtown St. Paul. tainment groups. His experience ranges from Laura Sticksel is the Attorney Recruitment day-to-day counseling of individuals and closely Manager for Jackson Lewis LLP, where she will be Dennis Nguyen is chairman of New Asia Partners, held businesses to planning and managing acquisi- responsible for attorney recruitment nationwide. a Shanghai- and Hong Kong-based investment firm tions for international corporations. Her office is in New York City. that assists Chinese companies in accessing the international capital markets. He is also vice Todd Lee is a shareholder and member of Briggs Asmah Tareen was chosen by the Minneapolis/St. chairman of Jiangsu-based Huiyin Group Ltd., a con- and Morgan PA’s financial institutions and real Paul Business Journal for its “Forty Under 40” award sumer appliance and electronics retail chain store estate section. He has represented financial institu- honoring 40 Twin Cities professionals under age 40 operator, and director of Wuyi International tions in structuring, negotiating, and documenting for their business accomplishments and community Pharmaceutical Holdings Ltd., a Fujian-based manu- various commercial finance transactions; companies contributions. She is a senior associate in Fredrikson facturer of speciality pharmaceutical products. He in commercial real estate purchases and sales, lease & Byron PA’s international and e-business groups was formerly a director of Sino Environmental transactions, and equipment leasing matters; and and is helping promote trade in Southeast Asia, Technology Group Ltd. and M Dream China Holdings borrowers in complex financing transactions. expand North Dakota’s reach globally, and increase Ltd. Nguyen is a member of The Johns Hopkins diversity in the Twin Cities legal community. University/Nanjing University Advisory Council and Kathleen Premo has been named JSA Healthcare lives in Shanghai with his wife and two children. Corp.’s new Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel. Peter and Sara Wahl, both of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in Dallas, were recognized recently Clara Ohr has joined the New York office of Emily Rome and her husband, Eric Welter, wel- for their legal practices. Peter, who is counsel to the Chadbourne & Parke LLP. comed their son, Jacob David Welter, on Oct. 27. firm and focuses on energy, land use, and environmental matters, was named as one of the best lawyers in Dallas under age 40 in the May issue of D Magazine. Sara, an associate focusing on a diverse array of financial restructuring matters, including

50 Perspectives WINTER 2007 Alumni Perspective securitized real estate trusts and insurance litiga- Barbara Berg Windels works for the Minnesota 2003 tion, was named a Texas 2006 Rising Star in the Attorney General’s Office. March issue of Texas Monthly. Jackson Bigham has joined the Minneapolis office Lindsay (Beck) Zamzow has joined Fredrikson & of Meagher & Geer PLLP. He will work within the 2001 Byron PA as a senior associate in the Employment employment and commercial litigation practice. and Labor Law Group, representing a wide range Amos Cohen has joined the Minneapolis office and size of corporations, both public and private. Keith Campbell has opened an intellectual prop- of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP as an Her practice addresses such employment issues as erty law firm, Campbell Nelson Whipps LLC, in St. associate. His practice focuses on business trial sexual harassment, wrongful termination, discrimi- Paul with Anna Nelson (class of 2000). Their prac- and litigation. nation (gender, disability, age, and race), retaliation, tice is currently focused on patent matters in the wage and hour matters, and noncompete/ chemical and biotechnology fields. Angela Hall has been named an Up and Coming employment contracts. Attorney for 2006 by Minnesota Lawyer. She is an Kazutoshi Egami is the Assistant General Manager associate in Dorsey & Whitney LLP’s Trial, Regulatory 2002 of the Legal Affairs Department, Nippon Meat and Technology Group, focusing on government Packers Inc. He works as head of legal counsel at the procurement and construction litigation. Rebecca Chapman is the secretary of the company’s Tokyo office. Minnesota American Indian Bar Association and a Florian Langbein is working at Basell Polyolefine Deputy Solicitor for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. CPT Eric Hanson is stationed in Bamberg, GmbH in Wesseling, Germany. Her practice areas include Indian law, zoning, con- Germany, as UCMJ prosecutor and operational law struction, landlord/tenant, real estate, probate, attorney for the U.S. Army’s 173rd Brigade Combat Ruilin Li, a member of Fredrikson & Byron PA’s litigation and intergovernmental relations. She is a Team (Airborne). corporate department, securities group, and inter- member of the Hennepin County Bar Association national practice group, has been elected a share- and the Wyandotte Nation of Anderdon. Jordan Kolar has joined the New York office of holder. She works on various business matters, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP as an associate. He including mergers and acquisitions, compliance Aaron Hartman has joined Fryberger, Buchanan, completed his LL.M. in Taxation at NYU in 2005. with Securities and Exchange Commission require- Smith & Frederick PA as an associate attorney in the ments, and corporate formation and governance. litigation department. He has experience in various Catherine LaRoque is an attorney with the Indian She is also available to assist clients with legal work business areas, including breach of contract, Child Welfare Law Center in Minneapolis. Her areas in China. business torts, and shareholder and partnership of practice relate to the Indian Child Welfare Act and litigation. Indian law. She is a member of the Sisseton- Joshua Packman works for the Oakland (Calif.) Wahpeton Tribe of Wisconsin. Unified School District as an educator. His goal is to Marisa Hesse was inducted into the Athletic Hall of work in public school administration. Honor at Austin College, Sherman, Texas, where she Nicole Morris works as an associate for Robins, played for four years on the women’s basketball Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP in Atlanta, focusing on Luis Resendiz has been elected a shareholder in team, serving as captain. She is an attorney with the area of intellectual property litigation. the corporate, franchise, and international service Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis. areas of Fredrikson & Byron PA. His domestic prac- Nicole Narotzky has joined Maslon Edelman tice covers drafting supply, distribution and Marshall Lichty rejoined the Minneapolis office Borman & Brand LLP as an associate in the litigation licensing agreements, mergers and acquisitions, and of Meagher & Geer PLLP as an associate. Lichty’s group. She has previous experience in litigation with other general corporate and business matters. With practice is focused primarily on professional a focus on intellectual property. a particular expertise in regulatory and contractual liability, medical malpractice defense, and general issues related to franchising, he currently represents commercial litigation. Lichty, a member of the Law a fast-growing restaurant chain. Alumni Association Board of Directors, also serves as the Law School’s representative on the University Bill Robers left Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP to of Minnesota Alumni Association’s Board of start his own sports/entertainment representation Directors. practice concentrating on NFL and MLB players as Laurel Pugh is an associate well as college basketball coaches. Adam Morris has rejoined White & Case LLP in at Bassford Remele in the Washington, DC, as part of the litigation/antitrust Twin Cities and practices in all Eric Sjoding is Employee Relations Counsel with practice group. He lives in Alexandria, Va., with his areas of civil litigation, including employment law, Target Corp. wife and two children. municipal law, and insurance defense.

Kate Stendahl is working at the London office of Mary Schug works for Lane Powell PC in Susan Reed has accepted a new position with Eversheds LLP. Washington state, where she is a member of the Justice for Our Neighbors, the immigration legal Diversity Committee. Her litigation practice involves services program of the United Methodist Erica Volkir is an Assistant Public Defender for the class actions, wage and hour disputes, healthcare Committee on Relief. She will work with church and Public Defender’s Office in Fairmont, Minn. insurance litigation, and business disputes. community volunteers in Grand Rapids and Holland, Mich., to run two monthly immigration legal services clinics, providing advice and representing clients in such areas as asylum, family-based immigration,

Perspectives WINTER 2007 51 Alumni Perspective and domestic violence. She will also handle special 2005 Ryan Stai has joined Leonard, Street and Deinard services for unaccompanied immigrant children. as an associate. Catherine Biestek recently finished her clerkship Joseph Rotondi will be working as a legal fellow with the Honorable Bruce D. Willis and is working at 2006 at the Mercatus Center in Washington, DC. Briggs and Morgan PA.

Wanwisa Thananan works in the Bangkok office Amanda Dalsing is clerking in Minnesota’s Third of Deissenberger & Partners Ltd. Judicial District. She and Firooz Basri (class of 2006) co-created the online Tabloid Fantasy League Wenzhao (Connie) Wang has left Kelly & Fawcett (www.TabFL.com), which has been featured in PA in St. Paul and moved to Washington, DC, to join newspapers across the country and in Canada. Firooz Basri is a Presidential Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP in the global trade They are working to build play-for-charity leagues Management Fellow and group, focusing on China. and form relationships with charities and Human Resources Consultant media/celebrity sponsors to raise awareness with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in 2004 and money for important causes. Kansas City, Mo. He and Amanda Dalsing (class of 2005) co-created the online Tabloid Fantasy League Altaf Baki is an associate in the global real estate Julie Eum has moved to New York City for a new (www.TabFL.com), which has been featured in practice group of DLA Piper, based in the Chicago job at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. newspapers across the country and in Canada. office. His practice focuses on transactional real They are working to build play-for-charity leagues estate law, and he represents corporations, devel- and form relationships with charities and media/ opers, and institutional clients in acquiring, dis- celebrity sponsors to raise awareness and money for posing, developing, leasing, and financing of office, important causes. They hope the site will employ industrial, retail, and residential properties. future Law School graduates.

Lauren (Hancock) Barski, after completing a two- Emerald Gratz recently fin- David Friedman relocated to New York City year federal clerkship in the Eastern District of New ished her clerkship with Judge and will be working as the Public Interest York, joined Dickstein Shapiro LLP as a litigation Richard H. Kyle (class of Fellow/Program Director at the Coalition for associate in their Washington, DC, office. 1962) in St. Paul and joined the Minnesota Attorney Consumer Bankruptcy Debtor Education, a nonprofit General’s Office. She married Jason Lien (class of organization and joint project between Fordham Rjay Brunkow is the treasurer for the Minnesota 1998) on January 7, 2006, at the Hill Reference and New York law schools. American Indian Bar Association. He is Relationship Library in downtown St. Paul. Manager for the Midwest Region of Wells Fargo, Franklin Gould has received the Volunteer Law where he works with Indian tribes and tribal enti- Chris Greenman works with Excelsior Energy prac- Student Award from the Minnesota State Bar ties. He is an enrolled member of the Turtle ticing energy/regulatory law. Formerly known as Association. He has assisted the Volunteer Lawyers Mountain Chippewa Tribe. Chris Wessman, Greenman changed his name after Network with their Family Law Clinic since his first he married Sarah Green on August 7, 2005; the year of law school. Alfred Coleman was chosen by the Minneapolis/St. couple combined their last names. At the name Paul Business Journal for its “Forty Under 40” award change hearing in Hennepin County District Court, Jennifer Hanson is working for Minneapolis-based honoring 40 Twin Cities professionals under age 40 Areti Georgopoulos was clerking for the presiding Real Estate Recycling, an award-winning developer for their business accomplishments and community judge, and classmate Kara Slaughter was the of contaminated real estate. contributions. couple’s witness. Joshua Hanson is working at the Bureau of Land Lynn Schmidt has joined Gislason & Hunter LLP as Nathaniel Gross and Michelle Marshall were Management, U.S. Department of the Interior. an associate in the Minneapolis office. She practices married on May 13 in Lake County, Ill. Nathaniel is in the areas of civil litigation, insurance defense, serving in the Naval JAG Corps. Mike Lehet has joined Littler Mendelson PC as an medical malpractice, and construction defect litiga- associate in the Phoenix office. He represents and tion. She joins the firm after a two-year judicial John Kelly is an associate at the Chicago office of counsels employers in all types of labor and clerkship for the Honorable Terry C. Hallenbeck of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. employment law matters arising under state and the Sixth Judicial District in Duluth, Minn. federal law, including claims based on the Arizona Reid LeBeau is an associate at Lockridge Grindal Wage Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Americans with David Twitchell works as an attorney editor at Nauen PLLP. He previously worked at the Hennepin Disabilities Act, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of Thomson West. County Attorney’s Office and as a lobbyist for 1964. Hennepin County Intergovernmental Relations. He is Jonas Walker is the Assistant Attorney General for a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Kristy Peters works for Ryley Carlock & Applewhite the government of American Samoa. PA in Phoenix, Ariz. Sasha E. Mackin has opened Sasha Mackin Law in St. Paul, Minn., an immigration law practice devoted to researching and writing appellate briefs for immigration attorneys.

52 Perspectives WINTER 2007 WhatWhat mmemoriesemories reunionsrreeunions stirstirr up!

Celebrate the Law School and its alumni in a weekend of activities for the whole Law School community. Special reunion events will be held for the classes of pre-1957, 1957, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1997. Please join us!

Spring Alumni Weekend is about coming back to celebrate your years at the Law School and the friendships you formed here, and presents an opportunity to show your support for the Law School. Those of you with class reunions in 2007 are encouraged to “participate in something great” by making a special increased gift or pledge to the Law School this year.

TToo get involved or for more infoinformation,ormation, ppleaselease contact: Scotty Mann, Director of AlumAlumnini Relations & Annual Giving at 612-626-5899 or [email protected],[email protected], or AnitaAnita Cole,Cole, AssistantAssistant DirectorDirector ofof AlumniAlumni RelationsRelations & AnnualAnnual GivingGiving at 612-626-5363612-626-53663 or [email protected]@umn.edu.

SPRING ALUMNI WEEKEND Return, Remember, Reconnect! APRIL 12-15, 2007

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❯Memorial Tributes

CURTIS BRADBURY KELLAR RICHARD FITZGERALD CLASS OF 1940 CLASS OF 1959

urtis Bradbury Kellar, a ichard FitzGerald passed Cdedicated volunteer and bene- Raway on Oct. 14, 2006, of factor to the Law School, passed leukemia; he was 75. An out- away on Nov. 18, 2006, at his home in standing and well-regarded attorney, New York City; he was 90. Son of the FitzGerald was a strong supporter of late Horatio Ellsworth and Laura CURTIS BRADBURY KELLAR the Law School. He served as a Koontz, Kellar was a fourth-generation member of both the Board of Visitors Minnesotan, born and raised in Albert and the Law Alumni Association Board Lea. He received his B.A. from the of Directors and was a dedicated con- University of Minnesota in 1938 and tributor to the Law School’s Partners graduated from the Law School in 1940. in Excellence program.

Kellar served in the Navy for five years FitzGerald practiced business law for and saw action in every theater of 34 years. He was a past chairman of naval operations during World War II, the business law section of the including the battle of Guadalcanal. Minnesota State Bar Association; his At the end of his military service, he principal area of expertise was mergers was a lieutenant commander and and acquisitions. He served as received both a Citation for Heroic RICHARD FITZGERALD Lindquist & Vennum’s managing Achievement and the Bronze Star Medal. partner from 1980 to 1985, and in 1995 he became general counsel for Once he was discharged, Kellar Kellar Distinguished Visitors Program, Twin City Fan Companies in resumed his legal career. He followed an interdisciplinary lecture series con- Plymouth. He also served a term as some advice from Dean Everett Fraser necting emerging issues in law with president of the Citizens League, a and moved to Montclair, N.J., where other disciplines, such as art, drama, and nonpartisan civic organization. he raised his family and joined former literature. The series has brought distin- Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson’s guished visitors to the Law School since FitzGerald enjoyed fishing, golf, and law firm—Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam 1999. He also established the Curtis handball, and he was passionately & Roberts. Eventually he joined the Bradbury Kellar Chair in Law, cur- devoted to the practice of law, his Office of General Counsel at Mobil Oil rently held by Professor Ann Burkhart. political opinion, and his family. In Corp. as its corporate and finance lawyer; As thanks for these and his many other addition to his wife, Beverly, FitzGerald he later moved to the International contributions as a volunteer and donor, is survived by his nine children: Division. He retired from Mobil Oil in the Law School named The Curtis B. Shawne FitzGerald of Minneapolis, 1981 as associate general counsel. Kellar Faculty Library in his honor. Kathleen and Sharron FitzGerald of St. Paul, Rick FitzGerald of Eden Prairie, After his retirement, Kellar devoted Kellar is survived by a large and loving Jaime Kassmir of New York City, Greg his time to pro bono work for the family, made up of children, stepchil- and Jon Kassmir of Minneapolis, Cori Innovative Design Fund, a charitable dren, grandchildren, a great-grandson, Sargenti of New York City, and Darcey foundation established by his com- and others. Dean Fred Morrison and Bar-On of Denver. He is also survived panion, Bonnie Cashin, to provide Professor Burkhart were privileged by 13 grandchildren. financial assistance to talented young to join the extended Kellar family at designers. the memorial service at St. Thomas The Law School community is grateful Episcopal Church, where Kellar was for FitzGerald’s service and support. Kellar served the Law School as a a long-time parishioner. He will be missed. member of both the Board of Visitors and the Law Alumni Association Board Kellar exemplified the qualities that of Directors. His generosity has had a the Law School strives to foster in its profound impact on the educational students—integrity, compassion, and offerings available to today’s students: skill—and the law community is sad- He endowed The Horatio Ellsworth dened by his passing.

54 Perspectives WINTER 2007 Alumni Perspective

❯In Memoriam

CLASS OF 1927 CLASS OF 1955 CLASS OF 1994 Benno Wolff Eugene M. Warlich Sunny C. Kim Oct. 4, 2006 April 24, 2006 April 20, 2002 St. Paul, Minn. Arden Hills, Minn. Chicago, Ill.

CLASS OF 1931 CLASS OF 1957 CLASS OF 1999 Lloyd K. Johnson James Remund Patti Frid March 9, 2006 April 24, 2006 July 11, 2006 Duluth, Minn. Windom, Minn. Golden Valley, Minn.

CLASS OF 1936 CLASS OF 1959 Franz Jevne Jr. Richard FitzGerald July 16, 2006 Oct. 14, 2006 Port Townsend, Wash. Minneapolis Special Memorials– Non-Alumni

CLASS OF 1939 CLASS OF 1960 The Law School was saddened by the passing Kenneth (Keva) Bender Judge Richard Menke of two longtime members of our community July 26, 2006 May 13, 2006 this fall: Minneapolis Prior Lake, Minn. Harriett Lee Carlson, who worked as an assistant CLASS OF 1940 CLASS OF 1962 to staff and students at the Law School from Curtis Bradbury Kellar William Haugh 1980-2004, passed away on November 7, 2006. Nov. 18, 2006 May 23, 2006 She is survived by her husband Marshall, New York, NY St. Paul, Minn. daughter Deanna Carlson, son-in-law Gary Carter, and grandson Ben Carter; and daughter Paula CLASS OF 1941 CLASS OF 1965 Carlson and granddaughter Marie Forslund. The William B. Randall Frederick Lawson Law School extends its sympathy to her family. April 13, 2006 May 29, 2006 St. Paul, Minn. Plymouth, Minn. Geraldine “Gerry” Marshall, wife of Professor Emeritus Donald G. Marshall, passed away on CLASS OF 1949 CLASS OF 1968 September 16, 2006 after a battle with leukemia. Clifford Lee Arthur Glazer Mrs. Marshall was part of our community July 16, 2006 July 9, 2006 for almost 40 years, and she is sorely missed. Winter Park, Fla. Cincinnati, Ohio Mrs. Marshall is survived by her husband, sons Andrew, ’86, David, and Daniel Marshall; CLASS OF 1950 CLASS OF 1985 daughters-in-law, Georgia and Libby Marshall; Richard Rohleder Jerilyn K Aune and her grandchildren, Mathew, Aubrey, Max, March 10, 2006 April 28, 2006 Oliver, and Evelyn Marshall. St. Paul, Minn. Edina, Minn. Robert Share CLASS OF 1989 April 24, 2006 Richard Sako Minneapolis July 12, 2006 CLASS OF 1951 Minneapolis G. Alan Cunningham April 20, 2006 CLASS OF 1991 Minneapolis Earle F. Kyle IV Oct. 9, 2006 CLASS OF 1953 McGregor, Minn. Judge James Johnston Aug. 10, 2006 Naples, Fla.

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OFFICERS Judith L. Oakes ’69, President Professor Brad Clary ’75, Secretary Professor Stephen Befort ’74, Treasurer

DIRECTORS

Term Ending 2007 Grant Aldonas ’79, Washington, DC Stacy Lynn Bettison ’99, Minneapolis, MN Thomas A. Clure ’63, Duluth, MN Judge Joan Ericksen ’81, St. Paul, MN Joan Heim ’68, Washington, DC Thomas Hood ’73, New York, NY Dave Kettner ’98, Madison, WI Judge Lajune T. Lange ’78, Minneapolis, MN David Lee ’70, Los Angeles, CA Judge Edward J. Wallin ’67, Orange, CA Ann Watson ’79, Minneapolis, MN

Term Ending 2008 Leslie M. Altman ’83, Minneapolis, MN J. Charles Bruse ’71, Washington, DC James Cho ’99, New York, NY Brad Clary ’75, Minneapolis, MN Dan Goldfine ’88, Phoenix, AZ Joan Humes ’90, Minnetonka, MN Nora Klaphake ’94, Minneapolis, MN Marshall Lichty ’02, Minneapolis, MN Judge Peter Michalski ’71, Anchorage, AK Paul Swanson ’82, Seattle, WA Nick Wallace ’05, Minneapolis, MN Mary Lee Wegner ’86, Santa Monica, CA Carolyn Wolski ’88, Minneapolis, MN

Term Ending 2009 James J. Bender ’81, Tulsa, OK Elizabeth Bransdorfer ’85, Grand Rapids, MI Judge Natalie Hudson ’82, St. Paul, MN Chuck Noerenberg ’82, St. Paul, MN Judith L. Oakes ’69, St. Paul, MN Patricia A. O’Gorman ’71, Cottage Grove, MN

Dean Guy-Uriel E. Charles Dean Fred L. Morrison

56 Perspectives WINTER 2007 Partners in Excellence EVERY GIFT COUNTS!

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